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I presume you didn't like WinME - the last DOS-Win "upgrade" of the 3.1-95-98-ME line - either?
Once upon a Thu, 08 Dec 2005 02:17:33 -0600 dreary, as I laboured tired & weary, came a tapping at my door when Malware Magnet posted this, & nothing more... Oh, so...
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Viruses started earlier than NT; even earlier than Windows itself: they started in the DOS days with BOOT sector viruses and the such like.
They made use of the autorun feature that MS(?) designed whereby when a floppy was inserted into a drive, and it had an executable setion, it would run - possibly to help prevent piracy?
Based on the previous DOS virus experience why wouldn't anyone have foreseen it?
Which is sad (that NT security seems to have been so bad) when you consider its chief designer? But that was the price of trying to support legacy Windows' software - software that presumed it could access whatever it wanted in the machine.
I like real player, good all round music-video player. But my favourite bit is listening to radio stations around the world. I was almost on the virge of paying the £8 a...
Loss leader...only in this case, it hasn't been MS who has lost out.
And re-writing the old software to run with it?
MS were probably caught between a rock and a hard place: make NT secure (as it should-could have been) and all-most of the current Windows software more than likely wouldn't run; or ensure that all-more of the current Windows software ran and leave it not as secure as it could be.
So the obvious(?) choice was backwards compatability over security.
That presumably is your answer to everything where you don't obtain the agreement you seek. That's...
I'd have to say that it was more likely "in many cases at no visible-obvious cost" - you bought a machine and it came with Win98 but the Win98 was still paid for by the OEM, so they would still pbutt that onto you, but hide it from the invoice.
Nortan kept MS running, so MS, in turn, is now keeping them (and other anti-virus, etc vendors) running...
I don't have that hbuttle...my biggest gripe is having to pay MS for Windows on a new machine when I don't want it (or even get it).
Obviously a big thankyou to the anti-viruse, etc vendors that kept them alive...
Especially as it's been designated as the upgrade route from 98; and 98 users are going to want to be able to run some of their software base on it and it has to be compatable...
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