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Article #1121INTERNET EXPLORER 4.0, 4.01 CAUSING HAVOC
From: James Charles Kinard
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:00
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TO ALL: BEWARE OF INTERNET EXPLORER 4 BUGS AND ALL-PERVASIVE PROBLEMS IT CAUSES TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEMS PLEASE READ ON AND SAVE YOURSELF ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS AND MENTAL ANGUISH: NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOUR SOUND CARD, SOUND SOFTWARE, SCANNER, SCANNING SOFTWARE OR ANY OTHER HARDWARE MALFUNCTION AND DRIVERS, ETC. DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT FOOL AROUND WITH YOUR HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE TO TRY TO FIX PROBLEMS THAT APPEARED AFTER INSTALLING AND USING INTERNET EXPLORER 4.00, 4.01. CHECKED WITH DELL COMPUTER CORP. AND WAS TOLD THAT INTERNET EXPLORER 4 WAS CAUSING ALL THESE PROBLEMS. DELL EVEN HAD TO CREATE A TECHNICAL SUPPORT PAGE ON THEIR WEB SITE TO TRY TO HANDLE THE THOUSANDS OF CUSTOMERS CALLING IN WITH AUDIO, SCANNER, AND OTHER "HARDWARE" PROBLEMS CAUSED BY INTERNET EXPLORER 4. DELL TECHNICAL SUPPORT INFORMED ME THAT THE *ONLY* SOLUTION IS TO ***REMOVE WINDOWS 95 *AND* INTERNET EXPLORER 4 COMPLETELY AND TO REINSTALL WIN95 FROM SCRATCH.*** REMOVING INTERNET EXPLORER 4 ALONE DOES NOT RESOLVE THE PROBLEMS IT CAUSED. THE WHOLE OPERATING SYSTEM OR WIN95 MUST ALSO BE REMOVED. WRITE TO MICROSOFT STATING YOUR PROBLEMS, AND TO PUT SOME PRESSURE ON THE CORPORATION TO RESPOND AND RESOLVE TO THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY THEIR INTERNET EXPLORER 4 PRODUCT. IF MICROSOFT CORP. DOES NOT RESOLVE THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY INTERNET EXPLORER 4 WITHIN A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME, THEY ARE LIABLE AND CAN BE SUED IN COURT FOR DAMAGES. MOREOVER, WE CAN BRING A CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST MICROSOFT CORPORATION, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEY SAY IN THEIR README FILES. JAMES C. KINARD
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