BL> Yair... Windows 95 is going to come in with the same
 BL> disadvantage that OS/2 faced... a mature system as competition.

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

  That takes care of 1% of the users. What about the other 99%?

  I assume that Win95 will have problems. Remember DOS6? It was just a
minor change on DOS5, and there are people who still won't use it. If
M$ can get into marketing problems with DOS, then ho much more scope
is there in a whole new operating system?

 JG> It broke me up when MS said that Winever was not going to be
 JG> released until September now.

  I can't see anything wrong in their conservative approach. M$ are
coming off he greatest success in the history of the world: DOS and
Windows, and Win95 could explode in their face. IBM stuffed OS/2
comprehensively, but they were coming off ground level with nothing
to lose. It's different for Microsoft.

 JG> A year or two? You're optimistic. I reckon they'll have a
 JG> number of small fixes out real quick and then the real bugfix
 JG> will cost money a fair bit later. The above sentence is exactly
 JG> what I'm expecting from IBM too! :-(

  Yair... I'm still shitty over OS2/Windows. They flogged it for $59
knowing full well that it was a heap of shit, and then bug-fix it with
Warp 9 months later, and have the cheek to ask $159! No thanks. I'll
just wait till they get it right, and I'll buy it for a song at the
peak of the Win95 promo when IBM are desperate. For mine, M$ and IBM 
are peas in a pod... heaps of shit screwing us.

 JG> Actually, only the 'red box' version of Warp is the upgrade for
 JG> the version you bought.

  Oh... that makes *all* the difference. $159 for a bug-fix on
something that cost $59 originally. Doesn't that tell you something? I
don't like being screwed with a "come in sucker." If IBM ever get
anything out of me, it will be bare-bones. At least MS has never
screwed me. They fixed their DOS6 shambles free, and let me upgrade to
Win311 also free. IBM are a heap of shit.

Regards,
Bob
  
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