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From: gt0159a@prism.gatech.EDU (LEVINSON,MARC LOUIS)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: SHARE and Excel 2.1C upgrade
Message-ID: <12150@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 2 Aug 90 23:04:42 GMT
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In article <marshall.649453571@wind55> marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) writes:
>installation process, but when SETUP went to read the second disk, it 
>said it was defective.
>
>I tested it with Norton Disk Doctor.  I copied it to another disk.  No
>Then it dawned on me that MS can't create a Setup program that will run
>when their own SHARE program is loaded.  I renamed SHARE.EXE to S.EXE
>and rebooted.  Everything worked fine.
>
>Why the hell can't MS warn people about this when they send out the
>upgrade?  This cost me nearly an hour - not counting this flame.
>

I had the same problem and spent a phone call to Microsoft about it!
Win3 made meload SHARE for the first time ever (Compaq DOS 3.3) and I 
forgot it was running.  The tech rep cleared it up right away, told me
to kill SHARE for thew install.

Now to me, this seems STUPID!!!  Why? because Windows 3 requires share
to be loaded.  I asked the tech rep why a warning about SHARE was not
on the upgrade letter/instructions or in the README file and his answer was,
MS: "We don't want to badmouth anybody elses product"
to which I replied,
ml:  WHOSE?
MS: "IBM PCDOS"
ml: BUT Microsoft licenced DOS to IBM and includes (or wrote) SHARE with
    every copy of their operating system.  Besides, Win3 REQUIRES SHARE to
    be loaded, therefore somebody should have added a warning instead of
    causing unneccessarry disk error messages.
MS: "we did not want to cause alarm"
ml: Tell Mr. Gates to get his departments coordinated, it's a hell of a 
    lot cheaper to print or type one sentance than to have the technicians 
    spend half their time answerinf STUPID questions for errors which should
    not have occured!


I can't badmouth Microsoft too much.  Sure they use a lot of *CHEAP*
quality (read: bad, not functional, not readable) distribution diskettes,
but has anybody else in TV land ever received a faster mail in upgrade than 
Win3?  Igot mine in less than two weeks from the day I mailed in the form
(from Florida - east coast all the way to Seattle).


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LEVINSON,MARC LOUIS
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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