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   Review - Rival Messenger

   3.0.165 (Oct 13, 2002)

   Wonko: "you should *never* put a "Cancel" button to the left of an "Apply" button!"
   
   Tell that to Microsoft, every cancel button in windows is to the left of the apply button.
   
   Zulugrid: "The Options dialog took like 10 seconds to even begin to become visible on my screen (I'm running a 1.4GHz w/ 512MB so it shouldn't have taken so long..)."
   Something is wrong with your system then, because on my PII 233 w/128MB (running XP!) it comes up in about 2.
   
   Zulugrid: "It didn't create a Start Menu item so now I have to go to the Add/Remove Programs dialog to remove it.. "
   
   Actually this is how Windows software is SUPPOSED to act. You are supposed to remove things from the Add/Remove Programs applet. The fact that many programs add a seperate icon in the programs menu is sometimes nice, but is definately not a reqirement.

2. Comment - Microsoft Announces New Office Tools

   3.0.165 (Dec 15, 2002 - 8:04 AM)

   While I can see the value of this type of automation for large businesses, what value would it have for the average home user that uses Office for day to day tasks, or even most smaller companies that don't need this functionality? If Office 11 is going to have the ability to run these applications, then I hope that it comes turned off by default, possibly with a prompt to the user when a document need this functionality. Otherwise, I stand by my previous statement that this is going to be another great way for people to write viruses, at least as bad as VBscript, possibly even worse. This is the part that worries me; "Visual Studio Tools for Office will additionally support no-touch deployment, which permits developers to change or upgrade applications without end-user interaction.". It sounds as if once a document is on a user's computer, the author of the document can update it as they see fit, and since these documents are in essence applications, the author can change what the application does WITHOUT THE CONSENT OR KNOWLEDGE OF THE USER!! Am I the only one that sees a HUGE security issue here?

3. Comment - Microsoft Announces New Office Tools

   3.0.165 (Dec 12, 2002 - 11:20 PM)

   oh, I'm sure plenty of people will use it, but 95% of them will be hackers using this "feature" to make new backdoor viruses.