On 5/13/04 9:41 PM, "Shawn King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This story has been fully *discredited*. Anyone looking for an installer for
> Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac OS X on P2P networks like Limewire should
> *expect* bad things to happen to them.
>
> What makes people think Microsoft would post a *free* installer of their
> most popular Mac OS software on a notorious pirate software network instead
> of....oh...I don't know.....Mactopia.com!?
Discredited? I know someone who found the file on Gnutella. It is said to be
a "web installer", which, if you recall from the OS 9 days, was used from
time to time so users could select certain modules and only download and
install what they want. I remember QT and Netscape, among others, using
this.
No one said that Microsoft posted the installer... But I'm sure there are
other MS products available through P2P services like Gnutella.
Kirk
Co-author of Microsoft Office v. X Inside Out
http://www.mcelhearn.com/insideout.html
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