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Article #94317Re: Patch for ME
From: Chris Odorjan
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:24
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:24
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On 02/13/06 8:58 PM, Ron Gibson wrote: > Well the point has some merit but porting games to versions of the MS OS > to the exclusion of W98SE when M$ themselves still support W98SE would > that would tend to force people to spend more $$$ on an OS they don't > apparently don't HAVE to have. In that case we'll attribute it to Microsoft's own stupidity: force the million or so users running Windows 98 but meeting the hardware requirements for Doom 3 to upgrade, instead of the tens (probably hundreds) of millions running Windows 98 _anywhere_ to upgrade by discontinuing support for it... (See Hanlon's Razor) -- Chris Odorjan - codorjan@gmail.com - http://www.execulink.com/~bobnet/
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