Greetings, Yes, MS is THAT Stupid, but then again with 40+ Billion dollars in the bank they can afford to do this.
The Office Update site does have updates for Office 97 (I have osr2 on my Win2k box at home -- Rapidly being replaced by OpenOffice 1.0 BTW). However the useful auto detection that Office 2000/XP/11 have is not supported for Office 97. MS did this, you guessed it, to give the user an incentive to upgrade their stuff to the latest and greatest. To get the Office 97 stuff (they haven't released ANYTHING for this product in YEARS) you would have to manually select that product type from the menu they give you. Also, I have seen lately, due to the rash of IE vulns, that MS has started requiring that you REMOVE your Security protections to even GET the updates that will fix a vuln... In some cases, a certain fix, means you have to turn OFF the very thing that you would need to get the update... I know that MS takes a lot of heat, and to be sure (like turning off any services your servers don't ABSOLUTELY need) their products do require tinkering, but I have NEVER had any of these problems with Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, et al. I only use IE for updating the PC's here at work, and even that is getting replaced by other methods (as time and money allow). Now if I can just get my users to stop using IE..... RandyW -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Steve Coffman Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 8:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Microsoft Update? LOL....... I then used IE and got this: Sorry! The Product Updates site supports Office 2000 and Office XP only In order to take advantage of the update detection service provided by the Product Updates site, you need to have Office 2000 or Office XP installed on your machine. For updates to earlier versions of Office please go to the <../Downloads/default.htm>Office Download Center. Are they a great rip off or what. really earn their trusted reputation! At 05:29 PM 1/9/03 -0800, Steve Coffman wrote: >Well this is interesting as it is humorous. >My wife's system came down with a virus and I did a full wipe and >re-install. We are still using Win98 on the desktops since we are both >avid game players. I absolutely refuse to use Outlook in any form (I use >Eudora), and I have not used "Infection Explosion" (IE) since version 4.0 >( I use Opera). >Anyway, I re-installed the Office 97 sr2 on my wife's computer and then >went to the Microsoft Update site for any security patches. >This was my response from MS (LOL): > >To find the updates you need faster and easier, >visit this site with MSN or Internet Explorer. > >The Office Product Updates site can perform detection on your computer and >tell you exactly which updates you need! To take advantage of this >service, please visit the site with MSN Explorer or Microsoft Internet >Explorer version 5.0 or later. If you are already using Internet Explorer >5.0 or later and you are using a personal firewall product, your personal >firewall product may be interfering with browser detection. Please turn >off your personal firewall product and then try visiting this site again. >Internet Explorer can be downloaded from the Microsoft Internet Explorer >Homepage. >Search for Office Product Updates on the Office Download Center. > >Are they really that stupid? Never mind, rhetorical question :) > > > > > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
