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Hi ID.
ID. Schofield gets excited whenever you mention Re: Windows 95 & OS/2!

 IS> BLASPHEMY!  You'll scream.  Well, your analogy of OS/2 is dead
 IS> wrong.  IBM has no plans of dropping support for it, in the near or far
 IS> future.  OS/2 will continually be upgraded and expanded.  If they were
 IS> thinking of dropping it why is Warp Server and PowerWARP both in Beta
 IS> and a new version of Warp on the drawing board?

 Even IBM offers a choice of Warp, Win95 and (something else.. DOS/Win3.1
 maybe) on their machines.  Why?  Cause if they only offered Warp, no-one
 would buy it - or at least ask if Win95 could be installed over Warp.
 I was tempted to buy a DX4-100 earlier in the year and the fact that it
 came with Warp was probably the only bad point.
 
 IS> But... but....  Yeah, but.  OS/2 runs better than Windows95. 
 IS> Anyone who has a rudamentiry understanding of computers and OSs (And
 IS> I'm talking if you know what an IRQ is, that's good enough) can see
 IS> that Windows95, like Windows before it, is a pretty program loader and
 IS> cannot multi-task worth a damn.  I know I'm going to catch flames for
 IS> that, but it is the truth.  Why?
 Ok.  So you can't get Win95 working properly.  Thats tragic, so tragic.
 But that fact is that OTHER people (myself included) can get it multi
 tasking very well.  By that I mean Hyperterminal, Bluewave, Word, Publisher
 CD Player and Doom.  On a 486-33 with 8 meg.
 
 IS> Microsoft couldn't program itself out of a wet paper bag.  That is
 IS> the exact reason why MS support has been taking 2,000 calls per hour
 IS> because of Windows95.
 Lets see, they sold 1 million in 4 days of release in North America only.
 Lets say 1.6 million for the entire world in 4 days.
 Thats about 16600 purchases per hour.
 So only 12% of people have reported problems.

 How long did it take Warp to sell 1 million, assuming it has?

 IS> Another illegal practice
 IS> is announcing a new product before development on it is even started. 
 IS> MS did this many times, the most famous was "A new 32-bit version of
 IS> Windows" right after OS/2 2.0 came out in 1991.
 What exactly did they announce?  What's quoted above?  If Microsoft decides
 to tell people that they're going to produce a 32-bit version of Windows
 is there anything illegal in that?
 
 IS> so here is
 IS> Office95, it works great and is here now, before our competitors can
 IS> upgrade their software because we haven't given them time yet!
 Microsoft has had heaps of information published on developing Win32
 software for Win95.  And what other Office software is there that people
 use?

Charles
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