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Re: HUGE NEWS ABOUT WINDOWS 95 ***

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From: af... Steve Cagigas
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <3ueqig$l...@gate2.internet-eireann.ie>, pc...@orca.ucd.ie (Peter Cox) says:
>
>In article <3u8oej$p...@hecate.umd.edu>, co...@news.umd.edu (Corey Robert Lucier) says:
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>>: Apparently in order to get MSN (microsoft network) up and running, you
>>: need to also buy the Microsoft Plus package (add-on?).  Page 3 of the
>>: booklet is where you'll find this info.  Which is no doubt another $60
>>: or so on top of the $95-100 you'll pay for Win95.  
>>W R O N G ! ! !
>>===============
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>
>I don't know what you mean by "wrong". I know for a fact that to use MSN you
>need to buy Microsoft Plus, which is an add-on package for '95 with
>various other utils on it. 
>It's not a scam, but it's typical MS business....
>And I do have a clue in this regard.


Actually, MSN was included in the earlier builds -- I 
had it up and running under B347.  I would bet that it's
been pulled out of W95 and into the PlusPak to placate
the Department of Justice, who were threatening to bar
M$ from releasing W95 AT ALL...

----This is from USA Today, 14 Jul 95



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From: af...@dayton.wright.edu (Steve Cagigas)
Subject: Re: HUGE NEWS ABOUT WINDOWS 95 ***
Date: 1995/07/18
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