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Article #985Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-)
From: jma... Joseph T. Malloy
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <DBpvI...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> rjva...@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Rob Vanden Heuvel) writes: >> The Plus! pack will be released *at the same time* as Win95, not " a while >> after that." >> The Plus! pack (I am running the current build) does *not* contain bug fixes >> for Win95! > >Okay, for the last time now: > >Whether the Plus! pack (PP) is released at the same time as Win95 or shortly >after is irrelevant. By no means does a same-day release indicate that there >are no bug fixes in PP. The simple fact of the matter is that Win95 (being >an OS) must be finalized sooner than PP because OEMs (who don't care about PP) >require Win95 at least 6 weeks prior to Aug. 24 if they have any hope of >making it available by then. This deadline would appear to have been missed >but that's another story. So, Microsoft has several weeks following the >code lock on Win95 in which to code bug fixes to be included in PP. Naturally, >these bug fixes will not be found in the beta versions os PP which fall prior >to the code lock on Win95 because if the code were not locked, then they might >as well put the fixes right in the OS! So, you're saying that the initail release of the Plus! pack will have "several weeks" worth of bug fixes for Windows 95? I don't think so: why confuse the issue with a couple of weeks worth of bug fixes when you're going to release them on a quarterly or so basis (I can see the tech support nightmare *this* would cause). Maybe it'll have recently written -- and tested -- 32 bit drivers, but I think it will have no (let me make that clear for you: nada, keine, zero) bug fixes. But go on spreading the nice little bit of FUD if you'd like; make sure people know *you're* the only one spreading it!
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From: jma...@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy) Subject: Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-) Date: 1995/07/16 Message-ID: <3ub5f4$li3@itsmail1.hamilton.edu> X-Deja-AN: 106329564 organization: Hamilton College newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit