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- From: grantp@usa.pipeline.com(Pete Grant)
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- Subject: Re: Must I buy the subscription to get MS VC++ 4.1?
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 11:43:46 GMT
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- On Mar 28, 1996 05:35:48 in article <Must I buy the subscription to get MS
- VC++ 4.1?>, 'p-wahle@uiuc.edu (Peter J. Wahle)' wrote:
-
-
- >I'm interested in buying MS VC++ 4.1.
- >I do not have a previous version.
- >Do I have to first buy MS VC++ 4.0,
- >then buy the subscription to get version 4.1?
- >Or, can I just buy version 4.1 and save myself
- >some money. As a student, the subscription
- >would nearly double the price. BC++ would
- >be less expensive, but I don't know if it includes
- >the OpenGL libraries and documentation I need.
- >
- No, you can buy the system without the subscription.
-
- MS marketing guys/gals are trying to get you to buy
- the whole shebang by making it difficult to under-
- stand that subscription is an extra cost option.
- (That's why I own some MS stock :-)) I saw one ad --
- I forget where -- from which one had to conclude that
- subscription was the only choice. That's Madison
- Ave for you.
- >----------------
- >Peter J. Wahle
- >p-wahle@uiuc.edu
- >----------------
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- Pete Grant
- Kalevi, Inc.
- Software Engineering & development
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