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To: mappingworld who wrote (10301)	6/25/2000 4:45:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110645

i can tell you have a problem with them. do you have any idea about other vendors (like mcafee) and their w2k compatibility? i ask because i don't know and because i'd be interested in knowing if this is a symantec thing, or a condition that exists across os platforms as you go from vendor to vendor. it would seem to me that a software manufacturer has a target market, and there should be no big surprise if not everyone is targeted. btw, i did not have to dig deep to find symantec win2000 compatibility data. from home page i clicked on service & support, selected an option that says 'shortcut to my support page', and that took me to a page that says, in red letters, Running Windows 2000? Read our Windows 2000 compatibility list. so three clicks took me to this page... service1.symantec.com where, btw, one finds this note from symantec on the subject of w2k compatibility and certification: "A product can be compatible without being certified. In both cases the product is fully tested for functional stability and operability. The difference is that compatibility testing is done by Symantec while certification testing is done by an independent testing facility. Naturally, anything "certified" is "compatible" as well." this note tells me that compatibility is not the issue i thought it was. when viewed in this light, in fact, i can see where more than a few norton components are compatible with w2k. just not certified, as described above. in addition, your statement that "manyof their products were/aren't compatible with NT" doesn't apply to NT4.0. the above linked page shows an entire column of compatible norton components, including, but not limited to, Norton Utilities for Windows NT, Norton Speed Disk 5.0 for Windows NT, Norton AntiVirus 2000 for Windows NT, Norton Internet Security 2000, Norton Ghost 6.0.3, and more.