MS Visual C++ and MSIE

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

I've received a number of similar letters regarding MS's development
tools.   Jamie

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Subject: MS Visual C++
   Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 20:14:08 -0800
   From: "Bruce A. Wilcox" <bwilcox@b-s-g.com>
     To: love@cptech.org

A friend recently purchased a copy of the professional version of MS
Visual C++.  I watched the installation and found it interesting that
the install program requires that the user first install MS Internet
Explorer before it will proceed to install C++.  The choices are install
IE or exit. 

This is a pretty outrageous example, since there is no argument that IE
is required to compile a C program.  Microsoft may have made it
impossible to read the help and support documents without IE, but the
user should at least be able to install his tools without the browser.

Bruce




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