[44384] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: win95 and IEAK6.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Stewart)
Wed Nov 21 17:46:43 2001
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:45:19 -0500
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From: Dave Stewart <dbs@ntrnet.net>
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At 02:51 PM 11/21/2001, Bill Larson wrote:
>users they must upgrade their computers to use my service those users will
>simply find another internet service.
OK, I don't get this at all.
Why would existing users need to run IE6 at all?
For that matter, why would anyone *need* to run IE6? It's not a terribly
complicated matter to create the dialup connection in Win95... geez, how
long did most of us go without even the cute wizards?
I do understand that you want to provide a "branded" copy of IE to your
users - but I'd guess you've already provided that to your existing users,
and frankly, the license notwithstanding, I don't see the software cops
comin' down on you because you continue to distribute your old IE5 branded
browser to Windows 95 users.
Of course, I'm not a lawyer...
If I were in that situation, I'd do just that - make up the new IE6 for
users with machines/operating systems that can handle it, and keep the old
IE5 for those who can't.
