Re: Why prolong the agony? Just get Windows 95...you'll be glad (you don't have a choice)

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3 total messages Started by ir00... Billy Ko Fri, 01 Dec 1995 00:00

#90656

Author: ir00... Billy Ko
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 00:00

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In message <49kjg5$9...@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> - "jdm." <jdma...@unity.ncsu.edu> wri
tes:
:>
:>Why prolong the agony?
:>Just get Windows 95, you'll be glad in the long run.
:>Why you ask?  Because all major software is being 
:>developed for Win95

Go figure.  Key phrase: BEING developed.  All the Win95 developers are 
furious with Microsoft because they made RADICAL changes to Win95 JUST before 
releasing it.  Therefore, Microsoft gets the jump on everyone because they're 
the only ones who really knew what Win95 was like before it was released.

:>Besides, you won't have a choice!  I mean, why 
:>have an operating system with NO support (ie, MAC OS, OS/2)
:>no Hardware support (OS/2), and no software support
:>(all Non-win OS's).  

Are you nuts???  Mac support is far and away the BEST IN THE BUSINESS, and 
everyone else could only hope to come CLOSE to what Mac set as the standard.

:>
:>And to think, MAC freaks think that MS copied the
:>Apple interface when making Win95......sorry, 
:>BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! NOT!!

You're absolutely correct, here.  Micrsoft tried (and did not succeed) to 
copy the Mac OS when they came out with the original Windows.  The courts 
ruled that Microsoft needed to make major changes in their "OS" (in quotes 
because Windows in any version is still just a DOS shell) or else face legal 
action.

:>
:>
:>But don't stop there, look at OS/2.  complex beast,
:>one with no software and hardware support.
:>
:>So there's little doubt who'll win the OS Wars.
:>Windows 95, where do you want to go today?
:>

Where do I want to go today?  Certainly, I'd like to get there without a 
crash... So I'll stick with OS/2

Bill
Team OS/2

Re: Why prolong the agony? Just get Windows 95...you'll be glad (you don't have a choice)

#90657

Author: ccas... Colin D. Cashman
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 00:00

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In article <49mfih$2...@usenet2.interramp.com> ir00...@interramp.com (Billy Ko) writes:
>In message <49kjg5$9...@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> - "jdm." <jdma...@unity.ncsu.edu> wri
>tes:
>:>
>:>
>:>
>:>But don't stop there, look at OS/2.  complex beast,
>:>one with no software and hardware support.
>:>
>:>So there's little doubt who'll win the OS Wars.
>:>Windows 95, where do you want to go today?
>:>
>
>Where do I want to go today?  Certainly, I'd like to get there without a 
>crash... So I'll stick with OS/2
>
>Bill
>Team OS/2

Ya know, Bill, it's nice and everything to support your product, but you're
just plain wrong. Windows95 does not crash nearly as much as people claim, and
I've had my copy since the very beginning of September. Three months. And it's
crashed twice. Furthermore, those crashes were *my* doing, not Windows. Maybe
that's not a long time span, but wherever I'm going I've yet to crash Windows
on purpose.

And, for the record, while I believe OS/2 is a superior product to Windows95,
being a superior product is not necessarily indicative of what will win out.
IBM made one mistake, which was to think Windows95 was going to flop, and 
therefore choose not to support any programs on it. That was the one big 
mistake. That is also why I do not have OS/2 on my system, because the
current version will not support any of the new Win95-based applications
being developed.

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Re: Why prolong the agony? Just get Windows 95...you'll be glad (you don't have a choice)

#90658

Author: mc... Michael Coop
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 00:00

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=>Ya know, Bill, it's nice and everything to support your product, but you're
=>just plain wrong. Windows95 does not crash nearly as much as people claim, and
=>I've had my copy since the very beginning of September. Three months. And it's
=>crashed twice. Furthermore, those crashes were *my* doing, not Windows. Maybe
=>that's not a long time span, but wherever I'm going I've yet to crash Windows
=>on purpose.

=>And, for the record, while I believe OS/2 is a superior product to Windows95,
=>being a superior product is not necessarily indicative of what will win out.
=>IBM made one mistake, which was to think Windows95 was going to flop, and 
=>therefore choose not to support any programs on it. That was the one big 
=>mistake. That is also why I do not have OS/2 on my system, because the
=>current version will not support any of the new Win95-based applications
=>being developed.


So well said - thanks

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