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To: miraje who wrote (16347)	1/19/1998 5:17:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Uh, JB, before we get into this, is this a Devil's Advocate thing or what? Running software Microsoft doesn't like on your computer seems like a pretty lame excuse for "voiding the warranty". The OS isn't supposed to care. It's not like driving your car through the Baja or something, software's not supposed to wear out, right? Microsoft, of course, posts lots of reasons for lots of things. On the legal front, these reasons are often quoted as the final word on the matter around here, somewhat at variance with my understanding of how the law works. Of course, I haven't seen any followup on this story, when I tried to check Scott's link at Microsoft it was gone. So who knows? Just another thing to watch out for. Cheers, Dan.

To: miraje who wrote (16347)	1/19/1998 5:57:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

James; I think your analogy is flawed. It might apply if you bought after market piston rings and it scored the block, but the radio line is fused, and has no interface to any electronics. However MSFT might have justification if another vendors product was well known to scramble the registry, MSFT might well say no product support it you install that, and make sure they warn about it in their sales stuff. I can see MSFT not wanting to explain others recurring problems again and again. Bill