Re: Encycolopedia Britiannica on CD -- Need MSIE first

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

In reply to James Packard Love's message sent 1/5/98 9:25 PM:

>Bryon Bloch recently purchased a CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia
>Britannica '98.  He tried to install the program, but it told him he
>could not install it unless he first installed Microsoft's Internet
>Explorer.  He was surprised, since the Box did not list that
>requirement, and he thought that Encyclopedia Britiannica was a
>competitor of Microsoft's Encarta.  He was a Netscape user, but
>fortunately, he had recently upgraded his hard drive from 500 megs to 5
>gigabytes, and so he was able to add Microsoft's Internet Explorer and
>keep his perferred Netscape.

I just received a note from a Win95 user who had purchased Microsoft 
Flight Simulator for use on the Internet Gaming Zone. He found it did not 
work because he'd de-installed MSIE in favor of Navigator. This guy is 
about a 90% Microsoft customer, but I guess 90% just isn't good enough 
anymore. 

When Microsoft purchased the IGZ last summer, the first order of business 
was kicking out the Macintosh customers. Netscape was next. Kind of makes 
you wonder when they're going to come for the rest of us.

   Mitch Stone
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