Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Wed, 02 Sep 1998 19:14:22 -0300

In message <199809022047.QAA20897@dcl.MIT.EDU>, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" writes:
+-----
| If users are forced to run a conversion program before they can take a
| Word file saved on an NTFS 5.0 filesystem and copy it to a floppy disk
| with FAT filesystem, they will *not* be happy.
+--->8

Has that *ever* stopped Microsoft from breaking backward compatibility to
force users to upgrade to the latest and greatest? (And forced migration
from Win95/98 to NT, especially for businesses, may well be part of the
plan.)

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electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university






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