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Subject: Re: Lucky for me, my rating is > 38,921 :) I guess I can buy it!

Author: Anthony Boynes

Date: 12:01:25 11/10/00

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Saying that it will work is not enough.  What if I purchase the  product and
there is operating system conflict?  I won't take the chance of being stuck with
a program that you won't help me with.


Your business side of things dictates that you lose my business.




On November 10, 2000 at 14:49:19, John Merlino wrote:

>On November 10, 2000 at 01:09:09, Anthony Boynes wrote:
>
>>If Win NT and Win 2000 were important enough then they would be officially
>>supported.
>
>OFFICIAL support for three essentially different platforms takes too long and
>requires more testers than was financially feasable (given the financial state
>that Mattel Interactive was in). I'm sure that this is no consolation to you,
>the user, but that's the business side of things. There were 8 testers for 3
>months (not counting the 6 developers, who were also obviously spending a great
>deal of time with the program, two of which were running Win2K). That was
>considered adequate by all concerned. We'll see if they were right....
>
>However, the development team has told me repeatedly that the program will "work
>fine" on NT and Win2K.
>
>jm



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