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

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From: jma... Joseph T. Malloy
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
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