Re: Microsoft and MACs

[Wandered Inn <esoteric@denali.atlnet.com>]

"Eric M. Bennett" wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, stan johnson wrote:
> >
> >> And what are you going to do when the "you must register this software
> >> or it won't work more than [60?] days" program M$ is now trying out
> >> becomes fully implemented??
> >
> >I'll keep setting my clock back.  That's what I plan to do with the Y2K
> >problems on Win95.  I'm not going to install the M$ patches by installing
> >IE4.
> 
> As I recall, Microsoft's plan was to use a launch counter... after X number
> of launches it stops working until you register.  Setting the date back
> won't fix that... you'd have to zap the counter (surely somebody will
> figure out a way to hack that).

Through my own paranoia and thanks to Microsoft, I no longer register
online.  I always do it now via the postal service.

> 
> --
> Eric Bennett ( http://www.pobox.com/~ericb/ )
> Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University
> 377 Olin Chemistry Lab
> 
> A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is
> nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
> -  Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@denali.atlnet.com

You mean you paid MONEY for Service Pack '98????