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On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 5:18 am, Kai Hendry wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:47:32 +0000, Peter Butterfield wrote: > > individuals and businesses affected? Bet someone in ms got the sack! > > Anyone else heard about this or has it been kept quiet? > > Why do you care? > Trust, accountability, responsibility, cost of sorting problems out, getting an inocent third party in deep s*@t, do I need to go on? Plus, in regard to trust, most users do not realise what problems can occur so when a nice easy upgrade path is presented they expect it to be ok - especially from a company like ms. On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 7:59 am, Ray Smith wrote: > strange because the readme which most people don't read mention > uninstalling previous version as it may cause problems. > all it does is leave the previous version on the disk and file associations > don't get updated properly.you have to uninstall the old one then set the > association manually or uninstall both the reinstall the new version. > > never had to reformat. > > certain members as tactful as ever ;-) I must admit I was surprised at the extent of the mess it caused but if you consider how integrated win os's are with their apps - especially ie and oe - and how integrated acro has become with these...perhaps the situation is getting worse. Peter. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.