>I am appalled that VS 6.0 REQUIRES IE 4 to be installed. There is ABSOLUTELY no reason MS could not have made the help compliant with other browsers.
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>I am FED UP with MS pushing their way onto my desktop. I will NEVER use IE on principle alone. And if that means that I cannot buy future upgrades of Microsoft's development tools then I will buy someone else's.
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>They have really pissed me off. If there is ONE other person ready to make a stand let's get together and make a team!
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>Bob Byrd - bbyrd@merklenet.com



IE is now mandatory for everything labeled Microsoft.
Like it or not, it's part of the OS, period.

This mean that you'll not use Win98, WinNT4 Option Pack, WinNT5, all the Dev tools.

That said, you don't have to use it IE as you favorite browser.