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From: Bob Tockley zzdeden@*******.com.au
Subject: A question...
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 13:21:51 +1000
>The rebuttal: IE5 comes as a time-limited beta, which craps out your
>operating system if you try to remove it when the beta expires. And you
>can't even re-install IE4 on top, as it thinks there is a newer version
>present. So if the beta runs out on you before you get the next version, you
>end up having to download it with Netscape, or reinstalling your system. :)
>
>(Spoken after painful experience in trying to remove Office 2000 beta 1 and
>2 from 6 computers...)

Ummm... sure, it comes as a time-limited beta, but there's nothing stopping
you keeping it indefinitely - all it takes is a little tinkering...
hehehe.... =)

(>) ARKHAM
"The difference between a clown and a mime? Easy. People care if the
clown gets killed."

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