Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 Bombs Corel Quattro Pro 7

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Subject: FYI - Microsoft/Corel's Quattro Pro 7
   Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 07:05:59 -0800
   From: Marion Baldwin <mbaldwin@blueneptune.com>


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BugNet Alert (Quattro & IE4)

Updated March 4, 1998
        
        
'Microsoft -- grrrr'
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 Bombs Corel Quattro Pro 7

IT'S A GOOD thing that Corel released a new version
of its Quattro Pro spreadsheet late last year because the
previous version -- the stand-alone Quattro Pro 7 --
can't be installed on Windows 95 computers that already
have Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 installed.
Corel has confirmed to BugNet that the
presence of Internet Explorer 4 on a PC prevents
installing the stand-alone version of Quattro Pro 7.
The Perfect Office Suite version is not
affected, but users who try to install the stand-alone
Quattro Pro 7 get an Invalid Page Fault in Module
Kernal32.dll approximately 78 percent through Quattro's
installation routine.

Although the new Quattro Pro 8 isn't
affected, the problem remains a serious one for every
Quattro Pro 7 user who buys a new computer, since now
virtually every Windows 95 machine ships with Internet
Explorer 4 (IE4) installed.

Users like Jann C. of Redmond, WA, are
finding that when they buy a new PC and try to install
their nearly new version of Quattro on it, they're in for
grief.

"Since I live in Redmond I suppose
I should be behind Microsoft 100 percent," Jann told
BugNet, "but what I experienced this weekend really
makes my blood boil! I bought a brand new Dell computer.
One of the programs that came preloaded on the computer
was Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0. When I was trying to
install Corel's Quattro Pro (a direct competitor to MS
Excel, of course) it would only get about 78 percent of
the way through the install program and then it gave me
an error msg. I tried uninstalling and wasn't able to
successfully do that either. This caused me hours of
frustration and phone calls to Corel, Dell, Microsoft
etc.
"Microsoft -- grrrr!"

The only work-around for the problem is
to uninstall Internet Explorer 4, according to Corel.


-- 
James Love
Consumer Project on Technology
P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
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