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Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(

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From: KORO the Great
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 20:08
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Again, I have had to thin the newsgroups header.........

Stephen Boursy wrote:
> 
> In article <3109C66E.54CC@netwalk.com>, MD Cohn  <copydoc@netwalk.com> wrote:
> >Tom Picciani wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <DLpyFq.Hor@world.std.com>
> >> boursy@world.std.com (Stephen Boursy) writes:
> >>
> >> >In article <17718110C7S86.TPICCIAN@mu3.millersv.edu>,
> >> >Tom Picciani <TPICCIAN@mu3.millersv.edu> wrote:
> >> >>In article <4dvcgj$psn@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
> >> >>spreadspam@aol.com (Spreadspam) writes:
> >> >>
> >> >>>It is the Cost of using Widows 95 that is the problem.  To get full
> >> >>>advantage you'll need to buy all new software.
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >>You have to do what?????  Obviously this guy has never used Win95.  I
> >> >>have yet to have the need to go out and buy new software for anything
> >> >>except Colorado Backup for Win95.  And that was a free download.

He means besides the superficial crap (GUI etc..). If you want to take *full* advantage of w95, you 
must upgrade.  There are no such problems w/ OS/2 or LINUX.

> >> >>Just what new software are you talking about?

Anything that has "95" tagged onto the end of the name (ie office "95")

> >> >        Maybe all he had was backup software.  Except for outdated
> >> >DOS utilities everything runs fine with Win95--most things better.

any disk diagnostics software won't run anymore.  (backup, Anti Viral, or otherwise)

> >> >        The header of this post amuses me--"I'll never but Win95".
> >> >That implies they're going to steal it because those are the only
> >> >two choices.

There's allways OS/2 and LINUX

> >> I've see a lot of people like this guy.  They've never used it, or used it
> >> on a system that was not set up properly (or used it on a Packard Bell,
> >> read crash boom!).  But they trash it anyway.  Not really fair is it?

I've used it, I still think it sucks....  You see, all of the important bugs in software aren't 
superficial.  (e.g. my friend is writing multiple viri undetectable by w95 compatible virus 
checkers because of a bug in w95 it's self)

> >hey, hey....watch this talk about Packard Bell...my system is just
> >over a year-old and I couldn't be happier with it.

let me guess, you like w95 too.  um hum, thought so.
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					KORO the Great
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From: KORO the Great <ksahin@scruznet.com>
Newsgroups: alt.destroy.microsoft,alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :-(
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:08:00 -0800
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