How many updates did one apply to Windows 3.0 and Word in those days??
Sure, there might have been a “hotfix” available for download over a long distance BBS, but virtually nobody would have ever done so (even if they were lucky enough to have a modem). Maybe large companies applied such when impacted.
Even in the Windows XP days,
I think windowsupdate.com was still a manually triggered process…
For a while, bundled drivers were a steaming pile of crap in quality and several generations of Windows suffered greatly until Microsoft got vendors in line and updates became common.
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How many updates did one apply to Windows 3.0 and Word in those days??
Sure, there might have been a “hotfix” available for download over a long distance BBS, but virtually nobody would have ever done so (even if they were lucky enough to have a modem). Maybe large companies applied such when impacted.
Even in the Windows XP days, I think windowsupdate.com was still a manually triggered process…
For a while, bundled drivers were a steaming pile of crap in quality and several generations of Windows suffered greatly until Microsoft got vendors in line and updates became common.
Somewhere in my Dad's house, I think I still have the 'free' DOS 6.22 update disks that came if you registered 6.21.