Re: Why the Apple II was on the right track...

[kindall@manual.com (Jerry Kindall)]

In article <5eq1gi$63i$1@europa.frii.com>, shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy
Shackelford) wrote:

>Since I mentioned MS' deceptive marketing, I'll give an example. They have
>an ad for Internet Exploder in the current Macworld trying to convince Net-
>scape users to switch. One thing they say is Netscape doesn't have an uninstall
>program. So? You drag the folder it's in to the trash and empty it and it's
>gone. MS is the one who's in the habit of putting crap all over your system
>folder when you install their stuff.

And furthermore, MS is the one in the habit of assuming that you're going
to want to remove their product.  (Why else would they provide an
uninstall program?)

BTW, it's not quite so easy to get rid of Netscape.  You gotta get rid of
its cache folder, too, which can hog some serious disk space long after
the program is gone.

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