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paradigm@mercury.interpath.net (Dave Briggman) wrote:

>Brett James (Brett.James@launchpad.unc.edu) wrote:
>: >And if you're stupid enough to move to the initial release of Windows 95,
>: >then I wouldn't want to sell anything to you anyhow.
[snip]
>As a reseller of a technology-based operating system (which Windows 95
>is not, unless someone out here can tell me what is new technology on
Win 95 is the newest OS you can buy for the 486.  What's wrong if
people want it?  It's far superior to Win 3.1 or WFWG.
>Windows 95 that hasn't been on the Mac for about 5 years and on NeXTSTEP
>since about 1988), I have the luxury of being able to choose my customers
>as I would like in the DOS/Windows environments.
Aweful choosey about your customers -- I guess the customer is not
always right with you -- in fact if they have a Pentium with Win95 --
then they are morons? ???  Uh...
>With regard to my comments about Windows 95, and not wanting anyone as
>a customer who has that product, I was a reseller when 3.0 came out and
>EVERYONE that Microsoft was a god-send...until the bugs started popping
>up all over the place, and then it became a nightmare for us.

Win95 is much more extensively tested than Win 3.0 was.  Come on now.
You know that.  

>Most of the 1 million boxes of Windows 95 have gone to the home user...
Sure, that's just the first week.
>I don't know of any large corporation that has migrated either in large
>part or in total to Windows 95...sales figures show that a majority of
>the 1 million copies of '95 have been sold at consumer level stores...
>and not corporate resellers...you won't see companies going to Windows
>until the bugs are drawn out of it (read Windows 96).
What bugs are you talking about?  Works fine for tons of people I've
worked with.  BTW, many of those home buyers are sys-admins at
companies... they  will bring it into the work place faster than you
can imagine...  
>Windows 95 is cute, but it's nothing that I haven't seen on the Mac
>for 5 years and NeXTSTEP even longer than that. 
Fine, but the Mac and NextStep are made by yuppie california companies
(nothing wrong with that), with exclusive (i.e. monopoly) control of
s/w and h/w for these 2 systems.  As a result, they occupy niche
markets, like publishing.  The PC is the machine for everyone else.
100 million users may be wrong and stupid, but at least PC users will
get much more mileage out of their 16MB 486 with Win95 than Dos or Win
3.0.   Of course there is OS/2 and Linux or NT as further choices.

ps.  Obviously, since you ignore popular technology solutions like 
Windblows 95, then you don't know the new features that Mac or Unix
systems never have had:
1.  runs 32-bit Windows apps  (more selection than any other platform)
2.  client s/w for LanManager, NT and Novell Netware access
3.  tested by almost 1/2 a million users before release (allowing
     fine tuning to the user interface and other ease of use issues)
4.  future game platform  (doom, doom II, doom III, ...)