AOL 5.0: Hyperaggressive Installation]

[Andre' Kesteloot]

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> AOL 5.0: HYPERAGGRESSIVE INSTALLATION
> by Dave Murphy, member@itrain.org
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> Fred Langa recently tried to upgrade his AOL 4.0 to version
> 5.0. My first comment upon learning that he had tried was
> "Why? Who with a sense of technical savvy would want to
> use AOL anyway?"
>
> Here's the first sentence, straight from Fred's installation
> report:
> "AOL hosed another system of mine. I recently tried to
> upgrade a system here from AOL 4 to AOL 5; I'll spare you
> the details, but the punchline was 'Format C:\' "
>
> AOL is only for rank novices. It's great if you've got a stand-
> alone system that never needs to make a modem
> connection to any service other than AOL and you'll never
> attempt to bring this PC into the office or connect it to any
> other computer network. It also helps if you only use the
> software AOL provides and you don't have a printer, scanner,
> or audio card installed. I've seen AOL trash the configuration
> of all of these peripherals.
>
> I'm reading reports, Fred's and others, about how
> aggressive AOL 5.0's installation is. There's a better than fair
> chance that after attempting to install AOL 5.0, you'll have lost
> some other functionality of your system.
>
> I like AOL as a stock investment, but I don't like their software
> installation process.
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> Fred Langa's article: http://www.langa.com/newsletters/1999/nov-1-99.htm#aol
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