Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-)

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From: dale... Dale Ross
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) wrote:
>> 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!
>
>There, 'nuff said. 

No Rob, not 'nuff said. You are clueless on what Plus! is. Plus is not a bug 
fix for Windows 95. This does not qualify as FUD, it is down right not true. 
Is this what Team OS/2 has been teaching  you, to not tell the truth? To make 
things up that sound bad against Windows 95? You are yet another Team OS/2 
member out spreading untruths.

Dale Ross
L & H Technologies

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From: dale...@cybernetics.net (Dale Ross)
Subject: Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-)
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