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In article <3tvvnu$2...@news.rz.uni-passau.de> her...@spock.uni-passau.de (Michael Hermann) writes:

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>Of course they will release the bugfixes seperately as well. Noone ever said
>it will be bad that they are included in the plus pack... but the very fact
>that there will be bugfixes shortly after the initial release tells a lot
>about the state Win95 is in
>
>Actually MS has said that there will be quarterly updates for Win95,
>you can get those by subscribing to their update program ($200 a year).
>
>Early buyers of Win95 will get the first one (around years end) for 
>free

So, you're saying that the Plus! pack, which is supposed to be out with
Windows 95, is going to contain bug fixes?  I don't think so.
 

>|> My point has been that MS is almost surely not going to force you to buy
>|> the Plus! pack just to get the fixes.  They, themselves, advertise the
>|> Plus! pack for 486 and higher processor machines with at least 8 MB ram;
>|> what about all the 386s in the world?
>
>Do you seriously think those will upgrade to Win95 ?

Why not?  I don't know *if* they'll upgrade, but for about a year I ran
the betas on a 386DX/33 and had not the slightest problem because of the
processor. 

>A 486DX2-66 with >= 8MB is about the acceptable minimum for Win95

Sure, if you've got it, but that's a lot more machine than Windows 95
requires.  I run Windows 95 on a 386SX/25 laptop with 8 MB ram and
perforance is good, albeit slowish.  Microsoft, I think, is recommending a
386DX CPU; I think that's all that's needed most people.