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INTERNET EXPLORER 4.0, 4.01 CAUSING HAVOC

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From: James Charles Kinard
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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From: "James Charles Kinard" <jckinard-islander@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: INTERNET EXPLORER 4.0, 4.01 CAUSING HAVOC
Date: 1997/12/10
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