Thread: This is absurd
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Old October 28th, 2006, 07:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.access,microsoft.public.access.forms,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.outlook.installation,microsoft.public.vstudio.development,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
William Stacey [C# MVP]
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Default I apologize

Actually, if you think about it, they may have done us all a big favor. So
many times a beta product does not uninstall all its hooks correctly and
even installing the new version does not fix it. It smells like they did a
very good job of removing the old and getting machine into a known good
state before the new install. It is just a guess, but I have not had any
issues since the new install.

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William Stacey [C# MVP]

"Mark A. Sam" wrote in message
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| I'm sorry for this post. I didn't want to offend, annoy or anger any of
you.
| I just get tired of constantly fighting with software, and this just
pushed
| me over the edge. Little quirks take too much of my time, and there are
| many of them.
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| "Mark A. Sam" wrote in message
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| I really, really, really, really, really, really tried hard not to
| criticize microsoft, becuase I know some of you worship Bill Gates as
your
| God, but what just happened is beyond absurd. The world is in heap big
| trouble with Microsoft at the helm of the software industry.
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| A little while ago, I got a notice that an update was ready. I didn't
| know why I received it, becuase my system was set to receive Automatic
| updates, and the caption on the notification said "Automatic Update".
| First what is automatic about an update that asks me? Someone out to
| knock Bill Gates on the head and ask, "Is anyone in there?". But that
| isn't the problem, just a prelude. I'm really the idiote for saying
yes
| to the update. It was an Internet Exporer v7 update, or so it said. I
| said yes, then it asked me if I accept the license, and of course I did.
| The next thing I saw was that Internet Explorer V7 was being installed
| ( I had it installed over a month ago). Then it said it was
uninstalling
| a previous version and I thought, Uh Oh!!!!!! And rightfully so. I was
| asked to restart my computer and naturally I couldn't ignor that
request,
| becuase it kept coming back and bugging me. So I said yes, and nothing
| happened. So I tried to restart and it wouldn't. Finally after a
several
| attempts I opened the task manager and dumped a bunch of programs then
| was able to restart. After I restated, I opened up IE and went to open
a
| new tab and there weren't any. HUH, I asked myself? No tabs? I like
| tabs, what happened? This is what happened, the update uninstalled
| version 7 and installed version 6.
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| Do I need to say any more? I can't, becuase there is no description
| suitable to describe this, except, HUH!!!!!
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| I think Microsoft need some updating of personnel, starting with Bill
| Gates and continuing until the last programmer is booted. Keep the
| cleaning crew and the cafeteria staff.
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