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To: rudedog who wrote (28531)	3/3/2000 7:48:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Dog, thanks for the response. It sure seems to me like more than 50% of Win32 apps need a reboot after they're installed on any MS O/S. You can't compare a desktop organizer or paint program to a database that needs asynchronous I/O to handle continuous high-volume transaction streams. I might understand it if the program were adding support for a new device, but most of them aren't. Unix hasn't even needed a reboot to load a new driver for quite a few years (although in the quite a few years before that, I relinked many a kernel). What are these mundane applications (most of which should just be Java programs anyway) changing in the core system that would make them force a reboot? Never mind. No response required. I'm sure they'll fix it in four or five years. --QS

To: rudedog who wrote (28531)	3/4/2000 2:05:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

But then at my age, 5 years is like the blink of an eye... Dog, d00d- You've nailed it. You missed the blink. Sun won the UNIX wars. The (open standards) network became the computer. Microsoft became irrelevant. It may be a part of the "Win2K certification" process - Everything you need to know about the M$ 'certification' process is right here... Kerberos Made To Heel To Windows 2000 zdnet.com ..."In a move that company detractors said is another sign of its infamous 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish' strategy, Microsoft has used an open Internet security standard in its Windows 2000 operating system and made modifications without openly documenting its changes." -JCJ