re: Forcing hardware upgrades.
I understand printers and plotters. Those things are extremely proprietary and require extensive rewrites of drivers to make them compliant with new OS's. However, the number one used network card on the market won't be supported? That one got me. Now network cards are cheap so it won't be a big deal but it's the principle here. This clearly smacks of a little deal by MS and 3Com to push newer network cards on us. What could they have possibly done to network protocol to have an excuse for not staying backwards compatible to a card like this?
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