The IT department at work says I *have* to upgrade my M$ Outlook97 to Outlook98, supposedly to ensure "Y2K" compliance (yeah, I believe that!). When I "resisted" by pointing out to them that Outlook98 REQUIRES the presense of IE (4.x), and WILL NOT FUNCTION WITHOUT IT (!) (deinstall IE on a computer with Outlook98 installed, then *you* try to run Outlook if you don't believe me), and that I refuse to have IE on my system(s) because I prefer Netscape, and that besides all that, my "patched" Outlook97 *is* Y2K compliant! (!JERKS!) Well... None of those arguments prevented them from coming back and saying: "Upgrade or else remove all copies of pre-Outlook98 from your system(s)" (!) I feel SO violated. Who can I sue? BTW: This is where I drew the line with having M$ crap forced upon me. In the words of my 18 year old daughter: "That's IT - IT'S OVER!" I'll switch to some (any) other mail interface and deinstall Outlook - NO PROBLEM!
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The IT department at work says I *have* to upgrade my M$ Outlook97 to Outlook98, supposedly to ensure "Y2K" compliance (yeah, I believe that!). When I "resisted" by pointing out to them that Outlook98 REQUIRES the presense of IE (4.x), and WILL NOT FUNCTION WITHOUT IT (!) (deinstall IE on a computer with Outlook98 installed, then *you* try to run Outlook if you don't believe me), and that I refuse to have IE on my system(s) because I prefer Netscape, and that besides all that, my "patched" Outlook97 *is* Y2K compliant! (!JERKS!) Well... None of those arguments prevented them from coming back and saying: "Upgrade or else remove all copies of pre-Outlook98 from your system(s)" (!) I feel SO violated. Who can I sue? BTW: This is where I drew the line with having M$ crap forced upon me. In the words of my 18 year old daughter: "That's IT - IT'S OVER!" I'll switch to some (any) other mail interface and deinstall Outlook - NO PROBLEM!