Shane, You are being very, very rude and are thus, probably very, very young. I will however answer you.
The reason the *quiet moneymakers* use Frontpage and the early 98 version at that, is because THE WORLD uses I. E. and I.E. compatibility. Nobody in their right mind wouldn't design expressly for I.E. It is 90%+ of the users. ( Professional real world marketers tend to look to these sort of things) No package known to me or that group, can do the cheap and quick product - that the world demands - the way it can, and then allow a small client to edit simply, on his own, using the freebie FP Express. Finally, the whole point *is* that I have had completely untrained people in the 100's install/upgrade their own Windows 98 on a simply prepared box over the years. ( I founded and ran a very large computer users group for many years). FACT: I and obviously, *very few others* have ever successfully been able to comfortably install Linux as is being proved on this list every day, by the great range of problems. I am returning to Mandrake's excellent community support once again, to see if it has evolved into something I personally can use and recommend to my friends. It appears that 8.1 was a big improvement over 8.0 and 8.2 beta is claimed to be even better. The vast majority of responses have been sincere attempts to enlighten me toward the chances of finding M8+ useful in a real business environment. Unfortunately, there are still very few users seriously using it except for fun and their own amusement/challenges. Serious use of it requires access to working/workable business programs at least equal to those in the vast majority. So far there seems to be none. Which leaves the Win4lin option. John "The only people to really fear are those who know that they are right - especially those who are not" Kilneth ----- Original Message ----- From: shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? > bullshit, really, seriously, FP is good only for creating MS documents for > MSbrowsers, and anyone who thinks that is all you need will have a rude > awakening when a combination of linux/mac/bsd users and AOL using gecko as > their engine puts IE back under 40% on the browser share. > > front page is to the webpages what oil spills are to the environment, a big > stinking mess that someone will have to clean or will just keep on > destroying. > > i was taking you seriously until now. lets get one thing straight. anyone > who can install any other OS can install linux. yes this leaves some > people out, but those people couldn't install windows either. shall we > make them all use type writers? >
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