From:	Outsider <nonvalid_email AT yahoo DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject:	Re: c|net: Microsoft has officially killed MS-DOS.
Date:	Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:07:36 +0200
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Alexei A. Frounze wrote:
> 
> Outsider wrote:
> > Here is a search page for Microsoft product support:
> > http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp
> >
> > Windows 3.x users are EXCLUDED access to this page!
> > Windows 4.x users are ALLOWED access to this page!
> >
> > When I try to access the page using Windows 3.11, I get fowarded
> > to this page instead:
> > http://search.support.microsoft.com/support/misc/unsupported.asp
> >
> > Can this be legal to deny this page (support) to Windows 3.x users
> > while providing it for Windows 4.x (a.k.a. 95/98) users?
> 
> Simply teach your browser to lie about OS version. :)
> 
> --
> Alexei A. Frounze
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I have a little program written by Paul Chitescu that does that,
but I think it only works for Netscape which is ok for me since
that is what I use. What about most users who are not that
knowledgeable? Just the fact that M$ is doing this is and
getting away with it makes me furious.


-- 
Outsider
MS-DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Netscape Navigator 4.08
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at
random. -- Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming Volume
2 - Seminumerical Algorthms

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