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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.

: Yeah, this is smart.  I actually require people I am selling stuff off to
: to bring in a certified document with their IQ on it.  Otherwise, you know, I
: might sell something to someone stupid and you wouldn't want that to happen.

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
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.

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.

Most of the 1 million boxes of Windows 95 have gone to the home user...
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).

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.