| From: | Wil Haslup |
| Date: | 8 Apr 2001 at 20:56:38 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: Back from St. Louis! |
Hi Kolbjørn
On 07-Apr-01, you wrote:
> Since I first heard of DOpus for windows, windows has moved through
> a handful of various incarnations, and is now about to move into yet
> another with Windows XP. I'm curious how this has affected the
> devlopment of DOpus :)
XP is designed to allow users 14 days and require a dialin
to register, and if the product is re-installed on the same
machine you must do this again everytime. MS Explorer 6 has
the new type of network management (alternative to cookies but with
more controls) but is not currently slated to
support traditional cookies in favor of their new scheme. Of course
every web site with a shopping cart is supposed to ditch its cgi
scripts and re write them for MS.
The Windows users I know are getting more and more perturbed with
their modem suddenly being active when they aren't updating any of
their software.
Considering the release of Java enabled cel phones and PDAs and the
annoying, obstructionist policies of large corporations like MS and
the availability of Linux I wonder just how safe any developer will be
in that market.
Regards
Wil