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On Sat, 5 Aug 1995, Anthony D. Tribelli wrote:

> In article <4006km$4os@questor.org> you wrote:
> : Motorola Canada Ltd. has issued a stern warning to its employees to stop
> : testing Microsoft Corp's. new software system Windows 95...
> :    At the heart of the concern is the registration wizard, a high-tech gadget
> : included with each test copy of Windows 95...
> 
> I ran the registration wizard once. It asks for permission, it lets you 
> bail-out and register nothing. It is not required.
> 
> I'll try to pre-empt a long and useless thread:

That is probably wise...  :-)

I just posted it verbatim so that people could see what one company has
done.  Frankly, I don't give a darn as to who comes out on top.

My only negatives on Microsoft concern their quality of support; I am no
less unhappy with Novell support, and Novell's policies.

I recently installed OS/2 Warp and WP6.1 on a client's 486.  There were a
couple of problems, and a few phone calls to both Novell and IBM.  Novell's
answer to everything was:  You don't have enough RAM (8mb), and you "really
shouldn't be running OS/2", that's why you are having the problems.

IBM on the other hand, was knowledgable, *most* helpful, and did all they
could to be of assistance.

The "problem" in the end, turned out to be a corrupted file which WPwin6.1
had created from an old  WP5.1 file.  WP6.1 gives a cryptic error message
with different addresses when you get a corrupted file:  "General Protection
fault in module WPWIN61.EXE..."  It doesn't tell you the file is corrupted;
it will *not* print the file; it will not let you view most of the file ---
finally, there is *no* repair facility for the file, and you can't even
export it as an ascii file.

Sorry to digress... just letting off steam and frustration.

Thanks for your note.

--
  Steve Pershing <sp@questor.org>

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