From: Outsider 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 Organization: 'From' address is nonvalid, use 'Reply-To' address for email Lines: 37 Message-ID: <38FCC088.6653ED24@yahoo.com> References: <0vlffsc21hthnqfaramn08d9gb9jfk5v74 AT 4ax DOT com> <38FC1B75 DOT FEE68C97 AT yahoo DOT com> <38FC675B DOT F589882 AT mtu-net DOT ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: kob-khk-1-1.dsl.cybercity.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.cybercity.dk 956088330 94616 212.242.6.68 (18 Apr 2000 20:05:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT cybercity DOT dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Apr 2000 20:05:29 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (Win16; I) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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 > ----------------------------------------- > Homepage: http://alexfru.chat.ru > Mirror: http://members.xoom.com/alexfru 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