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In article <kremeDB...@netcom.com>,
Cerebus The Aardvark <kr...@netcom.com> wrote:
>cinn...@one.net (r. n. dominick) writes:
>
>>Michael Hermann (her...@akira.uni-passau.de) wrote:
>>: MS will probably make them bugfixes available by other means as well, 
>>: although I doubt they will make them available for free (ie FTP), given 
>>: their behaviour in the past
>
>>Huh? I can't think of one major bugfix/minor version-number change where 
>>the patch wasn't available for free from Microsoft (let's see... DOS 6.2, 
>>DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, some version of Lan Manager...) for at least some 
>>time. Hell, my sister downloaded Win3.11 from GEnie, fer crying out loud.S
>
>That's interesting, I haven't run across an update from Dos 6.2 to dos 6.22
>for under $45 dollars, certainly not on the net (not that I've looked
>either).  Upgrading windows 3.0 to 3.1 was a $89 pricetag at the time, I
>don't know if that upgrade is now free or not.
>
>Hell, upgrading friom Dos 3.3 to Dos 5 (er 5.1 er 5.11 er 5.2) was not
>free.
>
>Microsoft pioneered the concept of charging you to make their software work
>like they told you it would work inthe first place.
>
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Like the Plus Pack for W95.  Isn't most of the stuff in the plus pack originally
supposed to be in Windows 95 (the $89 product)?  Seems like a good way to get 
$40 more off the consumers.  Does anyone know if the W95 CDROM is full?  Could
they put the Plus Pack on the CDROM?  Why is the basic requirements for the
plus pack so much higher than W95?

You figure that if you pay for an operating system, you should get the COMPLETE
version, not just 3/4 of it, and then have to pay $40 more to get it complete.

Here is a list of stuff that I know is ONLY in the plus pack:

System Agent for unateended task scheduling
Desktop Themes
Font smoothing
3D pinball game
Web Browser
PC Dial-up network SERVER
Bunch of extra fonts and bitmaps

Is that worth $40 or more (I have seen it for $48.99).

Is there any difference from the Plus pack on disk and the plus
pack on CD-Rom?

Steven