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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (41907)	1/1/1998 2:37:00 PM
From: Gary Wisdom	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

Allen Re: MSIE Allen, I use both MSIE 4.0 and Netscape Navigator. Both are very good products and have some unique features. Personally, the reason why I just don't use MSIE exclusively is their mail program. It totally sucks. IMO Netscape Mail is much better. I can't figure out how a company as big as Microsoft could come out with such a lousy product. Don't they know that one of the main usages of the Internet these days is email? Have you noticed how Microsoft has inserted buggy code in their browser that crashes Netscape if they're both run at the same time? A Netscape person confirmed this to me. If anything, DOJ should investigate this. Total corporate arrogance. BTW, it only took me 2 hours on a 33.6 modem to download MSIE 4.0. I am not a techie and don't understand why it won't download anything at the stated rate. Very frustrating.

To: Cogito who wrote (41907)	1/1/1998 2:42:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

All - Some general 'catching-up-on-the-thread' comments: The Wired article contains at least one factual error. It states that n-hand was introduced at Comdex in 1996, and then failed to meet the summer '96 ship date that was announced at Comdex. Since Comdex is in the fall, I don't see how this could have happened. There's no question that the article is extremely negative in tone, but I suppose the writers are entitled to their opinions. I just can't figure out what is motivating them in this case. It doesn't seem like Clik! should be a problem for them whether it ever ships or not. Despite some people's beliefs to the contrary, there is no flash memory "standard." There are competing types of flash memory devices from Toshiba, Sandisk, Intel and possibly others. These different "standards" are not compatible with one another. In my opinion, this leaves the market ripe for incursion by a technology which is significantly less expensive, such as Clik!. I do believe that if Iomega cannot get some firm OEM agreements for Clik! by April or May at the latest, this article will only be the beginning of the negative press. The company certainly will not stop growing, but people love to bash the market leader. But I am going to wait a few months before I decide that Clik! is stillborn. There was no chance that companies were going to announce products with Clik! built in before Christmas, because it would have cut into the sales of their current products. Thus, I believe the fact that no announcements have been made yet doesn't tell us anything either way. - Allen

To: Cogito who wrote (41907)	1/1/1998 8:57:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	Respond to of 58324

<Microsoft engineers tell me that if I want a more stable operating system I should run NT 4.0. I answer that NT 4.0 crashes less often than 95, but it still crashes.> And the NT stands for "Not Today", sometimes even "Not Tomorrow". Biggest pig OS since MVS. An abomination. At SHARE, a convention of mainframe MVSers, they used to sell buttons of a pig riding piggie-back on a pig. The caption read "TSO on top of MVS". Nowadays it should read "Lotus Notes on top of Windows NT"