| Features |
Windows 3.1 | Windows
95 |
|---|
A wide
range of user, from novices to experts, will find it easier to learn and
navigate the entire system. Independent reports from Usability Sciences
confirm that both novice and experienced computer users learn faster and work
more productively with Windows 95 |
- Navigating the system is complicated
- Use Alt+Tab to switch between
applications
- Files and programs are often hard to find
because of file
manager and program manager
|
Navigate your entire
system more efficiently - find and do what you want easily without having to be
a computer expert; for example:
- Start button and tool bar keeps track of
which applications
are open and lets you easily switch between applications
- Find files easily, even if all you know is a
word in the
file, or that it was created in the last 3 weeks
- Get inter-active, on-line help with Wizards
that walk you
through tasks
|
Installing New
Devices
(CD-ROM, Printer, Scanner) |
Involves
complicated procedures
such as editing your config.sys, set IRQs, etc. |
Automatically
detects and
installs new hardware (Plug and Play) |
32-bit
architecture and
reliability (no more MS-DOS) |
- When one program crashes, you have to reboot
the entire
system, losing any unsaved data
- 8.3 characters for naming documents
- Frequent out of memory
messages
|
- Fewer crashes overall
- You close only the errant program, leaving
all other
programs and data in tact (no need to re-boot)
- Long file names
- No more out of memory
messages
|
Internet
Capabilities |
- Need to find independent service
providers
- Incremental software required
- Video for Windows
- TCP/IP Protocols
- Time consuming set-up
|
- Completely internet ready; access internet
without any
additional configuring of your system
- 32-bit architecture makes rendering and
downloading faster;
also allows multitasking while you wait for download
- One-button "short-cuts" to
favorite sites
- Automated set up using
Wizards
|
Entertainment |
- Need to exit to MS-DOS for MS-DOS
games
- Windows games - slow - not fast
action
|
- No boot disks needed-better memory
management
- Run MS-DOS games from within Windows - or
while you run
other applications
- Change resolution on the fly - no disks or
reboot
- New faster action Games and multimedia
titles "Designed
for Windows 95"
- Smother video in multimedia
titles
|
