G'day Bob,



On 11-04-95 09:53, Bob Lawrence said to Jeff Green



 JG>> Good move! Hold off 'til you know which one you wish to upgrade

 JG>> to (that's assuming you do decide to upgrade). 



 BL>   Yair... Windows 95 is going to come in with the same 

 BL> disadvantage that OS/2 faced... a mature system as 

 BL> competition.



A lot of computer literate Windows 3.1 users will almost automatically
upgrade I think.



 BL>   M$ has a difficult marketing problem - the same problem

 BL> they had with NT. If they say that W95 is great, they'll

 BL> lose on W311 - if they make it a downscale promotion, they

 BL> open the way for OS/2, which people will see as the

 BL> alternative to W95.



A fair few people are already looking at it that way now. It broke me up
when MS said that Winever was not going to be released until September now.
I wonder what Ed Livermore said about that :-)



 BL>  I won't be "upgrading" to W95 unless M$ give it away free.

 BL> I'll wait till the W95 hype, and then gently slip into OS/2

 BL> until M$ sort out the bugs in a year or two.



A year or two? You're optimistic. I reckon they'll have a number of small
fixes out real quick and then the real bugfix will cost money a fair bit
later.



The above sentence is exactly what I'm expecting from IBM too! :-(



 BL>   It's interesting that my instincts were right about OS/2 so 

 BL> far. Warp is just an expensive bug-fix for OS2/Windows, and 

 BL> it looks like IBM managed to stuff that too.



Actually, only the 'red box' version of Warp is the upgrade for the version
you bought. I'll admit that I'm very glad I didn't buy it and held off for
the full pack version of Warp (blue box).



 BL>  They must get it right soon, and then I'll be in like Flynn

 BL> with whatever they're calling it my then (Puce-box

 BL> Klingon?). I picked it right with Windows 3.1, too.



So far I've had no problems with the full pack. Took about 1 hour to
install from CD and that was that.



It took me a little longer to get the Internet Access Kit to work
correctly, but as I didn't have a clue what I was doing and never opened
the manual, I only have myself to blame for that :-)



Regards...Jeff (jeff{at}grntrs.dialix.oz.au)



... Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.
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