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Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola

#851
From: Lars Hohmuth
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:05
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In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.950811083735.8415A-100000@blackdeath.isltd.insignia.com> R!ch <rich@isltd.insignia.com> writes:
>From: R!ch <rich@isltd.insignia.com>
>Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola 
>Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 07:41:03 GMT

>On Thu, 10 Aug 1995, Nevin :-] Liber wrote:

>> They have yet to have a problem which would stop most people from using
>> their product.  When enough large companies say that they won't use the
>                              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>In other words, if you're just an average consumer, fuck you!

>> product because it is a security risk, I'm willing to lay odds that
>> Microsoft will fix it.  With the exception of security bugs and data /
>> filesystem corrupting bugs, just about everything else tends to be minor.

>What about all the infamous UAEs (magiacally 'fixed' by renaming GPFs)??

>Someone's got a document they've been beavering away all day on.  Windoze
>(or the app) crashes, losing all their work.  But this is a 'minor'
>problem, is it?  There's no corruption, just a days work down the drain.
>The answer is simple - don't use Micro$loth products.

>---
>R!ch

>If it ain't analogue, it ain't music.
>#include <disclaimer.h>                      \\|// - ?
>                                             (o o)
>          /==============================oOOo=(_)=oOOo=====\
>          |  Richard Teer         rich@isltd.insignia.com  |
>          |  Insignia Solutions                            |
>          |                           Voice: 01494 453409  |
>          |                           Fax:   01494 459720  |
>          \================================================/

Doesn`t Insignia live by selling Windows ports to unsuspecting Mac and Unix 
users, not to speak of licenceing Microsofts code????????????????????

Lars
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:05:47 GMT
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