From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 18 16:58:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E7314CF2 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:58:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:58:27 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Phil Regnauld" , "Jonathon McKitrick" Cc: Subject: RE: Marketing vs. technical superiority (was: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit") Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:58:27 -0800 Message-ID: <000001bf3229$307560b0$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <19991119014845.16654@ns.int.ftf.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Jonathon McKitrick writes: > > Just a question... you mentioned somewhere before that NT kept users on > > the cutting edge with service packs. I've heard admins says these are > > little more that bug fix kits. Can you name some of the more advanced > > features M$ has provided 'without cost' to its users by means of Service > > Packs? > > On the cutting edge ? Yeah, it's cutting something the users would > rather keep :-) > > Each service pack replaces .DLLs. > > For example, Active Desktop + IE integration, etc... I'm sorry, I guess I don't understand your point. Pretty much every operating system upgrade replaces system files and libraries and adds features that users may or may not want. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message