Interesting that you mention the posting format. Which one do you prefer? I prefer the most recent at the top because I don't see much point in scrolling down - you have to do it with each message that you view and that gets real old real fast. I, too, would like it if everyone stuck to just one method - as long as it's the posting at the top method. <g>

>Will everyone on this site please agree on a posting format, either chronological or reverse chronological? LOL I will follow in line with the way you have posted, with the most recent post first ....
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>You hit the nail on the head that whatever Microsoft starts, others imitate. Something that was said about IBM in the 1970s is equally true of Microsoft today: "They're not the competition, they're the environment."
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>Mainframe-era trivia: IBM's so-called competitors back then were sometimes referred to as "the bunch." BUNCH was an acronym for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell.
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>I mention only in passing that all of them are either gone or bit players in the computer business today.
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>Mike