Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)

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From: jo... Joseph Coughlan
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1995 00:00

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In article <3t91i2$3...@oslo-nntp.eunet.no> ol...@microsoft.com (Olav Tollefsen) writes:
>In article <3t8uvc$4...@stud.Direct.CA>
>gl...@Direct.CA wrote:
>
>> If you need live feeds into your spreadsheet than I'm sorry but Excel or
>> 123 can't handle it.
>
>Excel can certainly receive real-time data updates from a number of data
>sources. This is used heavily in the financial industry where they need
>to monitor currency or stock prices and do calculations on the changes.
>Windows NT is being heavily used as trading workstations. Windows NT
>provides the robustness and security they need.

Funny story since SUN's been doing much better in financial markets
with thier Solairs system -- but MS is well aware of that fact.  It
provides the robustness and security these users need combined with the
support that a shrinkwarp software company cannot provide.

More MT boasting.  Perhaps if you quantified fluff words like "NT is
being heavily used".  What sort of market sahre are you calling
heavily?  5%?  7%?
-- 

-- J. C. Coughlan, jcou...@gaia.arc.nasa.gov

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From: jo...@eco.arc.nasa.gov (Joseph Coughlan)
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
Date: 1995/07/03
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