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Technology Stocks : Totally Hip Software, What is in store for it? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSB who wrote (493)	8/24/1998 3:55:00 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 756

Hi MSB, so I DL'd this software several hours ago, been playing with it a bit. The first thing I notice is that the install has completely taken over my system and changed it from the traditional 2-D Mac appearance to the 'Aaron'-style 3-D slanted folders. I really dislike software that wants to muck with my system. The 'Aaron' look has been out for about two years, and if I really wanted it, I would have gotten by now. I very much dislike having it forced upon me. This has absolutely nothing to do with the actual graphics software. I mean to say that any other package, from the $1000 Adobe After Effects motion graphics package to simple freeware like GifBuilder can just install and be a tool. WebPainter wants to muck with my system and I'm a bit miffed, being subjected to some programmer whose never met me, yet presumes to know and dictate how I'll work. Suspiciously, after this new install and change of workstyle, I'm now crashing periodically. Debugging my 'new system addition' is not really what I had in mind. -MrB