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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-( Who really gives a shit what you buy
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 06:53:01 GMT
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- In <30f9045f.2193536@nntp.interaccess.com>, cfish@interaccess.com (Hsiao-yu Chen) writes:
- >On 14 Jan 1996 11:22:03 GMT, joebev@netvoyage.net wrote:
- >
- >>Hmm. Guess you never heard of all the native OS/2 apps that have been
- >>32-bit LONG before Windows 95 even existed. I am now using only
- >>OS/2 apps on my machine. Contrary to the myth Windows supporters have
- >>created, there are plenty of OS/2 apps available. They are just not
- >>on the retail shelves.
- >>
- >>Have fun running a deadend OS that MS won't upgrade because they want you
- >>to move to NT. Have fun spending more money for 95 versions of your
- >>apps that cost more and do less.
- >>
- >>JOE BEV
- >>joebev@netvoyage.net
- >
- >Don't get me wrong, I support OS/2 from the very beginning. However,
- >even IBM ships their Aptiva lines with windows 95. All the OS/2
- >commercials? Gone, right after windows95 shipping. What can you say
- >about that? IBM HAD the opportunatty, but IBM is just too gutless to
- >face Microsoft. And once again, good technologies let us down. Or,
- >maybe it's just some fate between IBM and Microsoft.
- >The reality is, if you rely on IBM to take care of Microsoft, you will
- >be disappointed at last. Even IBM does not believe in IBM, why should
- >us?
- >
-
- Every level of Aptiva is available in either Win95 or Warp. IBM has not
- stopped shipping Aptivas with OS/2 at all. You can't blame them for
- offering it with whichever OS people want. At least IBM gives you the
- choice, unlike most PC companies which force you to take Win95 or
- nothing at all.
-
- JOE BEV
- joebev@netvoyage.net
-
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