[Ham-Computers] Re Upgrades Windows 98 And Spell Check

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Not germain to Duane's hardware/software versus OS issues, but Windows 2000 
was as backwards compatible as any other M$ product.  It was originally to be 
NT 5.0, an upgrade to NT 4.0, which was an upgrade to NT 3.50 (or was it 3.51 - 
I forget and recently discarded the 5-1/4 floppies), etc.  Windows 95 was 
Microsoft's first big screw-the-customer step.  When I went from NT4 to 5, 
everything that I had been running continued to run just fine.

In a message dated 10/16/2005 7:33:14 AM Central Daylight Time, 
kd4e at verizon.net writes: 
> Also, to their credit M$ generally made new versions
> significantly consistent, unlike Apple, so that they
> were backwards compatible for most apps. (Win2000 was
> an exception.)
> 

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