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Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> Windows ME (Millennium Edition), the third major release of Windows
> 9x, has NO SUPPORT for DOS apps.  We DOS programmers have just lost
> our market:
> http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3715-7-1648259.html?tag=st.sw.3715-7-1648258.txt.3715-7-1648259
> 
> >Finally, Microsoft has dumped Real Mode. This vestigial code makes
> >Windows 95/98 work with some older DOS apps, but it also makes
> >Windows slower and less stable at start-up. Microsoft says that DOS
> >apps without native Windows support have gone the way of the
> >dinosaurs, rendering Real Mode unnecessary.
> 
> Real Mode is necessary to load even Protected Mode DOS apps (such as
> anything made with DJGPP).
> 
> >So the company has thrown it out, sending some crashes along with
> >it, we hope.
> 
> Micro$~1 misunderstands the source of the crashes.  Crashes come when
> applications' installers "update" critical system DLLs (e.g. the
> kernel) with their own "enhanced" versions. Just look at AOL 5 for an
> example:
>   http://www.anti-aol.org/   news:alt.aol-sucks
> 
> >If you need to run an old DOS app, you'll have to boot up using a
> >Windows ME boot disk that retains the DOS boot option.
> 
> I certainly hope the hard drive can be used as such a boot disk.
> 
> --

Check this out.

Here is a search page for Microsoft product support:
http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp

Windows 3.x users are EXCLUDED access to this page!
Windows 4.x users are ALLOWED access to this page! 

When I try to access the page using Windows 3.11, I get fowarded
to this page instead:
http://search.support.microsoft.com/support/misc/unsupported.asp

Can this be legal to deny this page (support) to Windows 3.x users
while providing it for Windows 4.x (a.k.a. 95/98) users?

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