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Need some computer help from Coumpter folks.
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[quote user="Virginian"] <P>Interesting how people crucify Microsoft because <EM><U><STRONG>other</STRONG></U></EM> people's software won't work with the newer MS releases. That is why they do Beta releases, so the other software firms can upgrade <STRONG>their</STRONG> interfaces. Kinda like being mad at Chevy because Goodyear's 14" tires don't fit anymore. But, if one checks low and behold, Goodyear has 15", 16" , 17" ...ad infinitum size tires.</P> <P>If your support software doesn't work, check their site for upgrades and then call them.</P> <P>MS is not perfect. But, they are 99.99% responsible for all of us being able to be here, and the web even being here, too.</P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P>I am not crucifying microsoft either, Just displaying my dislike of a more complicated time thanks to them. Bill gates is a marketing genious and knows who to hire to get the job done. Unfortunitly it was not microsoft who is responsible for the internet conturary to popular belief.</P> <P>We have the government to thank for that. They were using the phone lines as early as the 50's to send information back and forth between base's and other instaltaions. But It wasnt until the mid to late 80's when the technology was declassified that a lovly company called Prodigy, which was devoloped by gamers, Brought full use of what we now know as the internet in to existiance. The internet was originaly a way to share files and play games, not unlike today. But the big difference came to be when Microsoft bought Prodigy in around 94 that microsoft became the leader in internet service. It is true that bill has made the computer and its programs available to the world at affordiable prices. </P> <P>But I for one mis the simpler times when the computer as well as the phone were used as a tool and were not as big of an impact that they are today.</P> <P>Curt</P>
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