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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-( Who really gives a shit what you buy
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 21:09:16 GMT
- Organization: Nova Scotia Technology Network
- Message-ID: <4dh45s$n4p@news.nstn.ca>
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- In <4dbl7p$cpn@hermes.oc.com>, R@Net.com (The Manager) writes:
- >>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.
- >
- >I've used all of the major OS's. OS/2 2.1, OS/2 Warp, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11FW
- >and Win 95. All off them are good OS's. Some are better then others (Warp, and 95), but they all
- >started off as 16 bit OS's. To say that you're only going to use native OS/2 apps is a little
- >childish. And to say that there are alot of native OS/2 apps is stupid. There's only a about 100
- >major OS/2 apps on the market, and you never see any of them in a store. You have to order them
- >from the company.
-
- 100
- ???
-
- I've purchased more than that for personal use over the years and I found a great deal more to be
- available. And they were all on the shelf at IB. And FYI, IB is a "company" and a
- store as most are.
-
- >
- >>
- >>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.
- >
- >Microsoft won't upgrade? Why are they already working on Win 96. I'm running the beta right now.
- >Their not trying to force anyone to upgrade to NT. When we're ready, we'll make the move. But to
- >run it you 16 megs and a fast processor. Not everyone has these requirments. And our apps cost
- >more? If anyones apps cost more it's your's. Most apps are created for Windows, and then ported
- >to OS/2. As a result, your apps cost more.
- >
- >
- >
-
- I'd like to see an OS/2 app that was ported from Windows and that costs more. Most
- useful apps like PMMAIL and Filestar/2 cost much less that the MS apps, mostly
- because there isn't 50 or so magazine subscritions, AOL disks and various cards to
- send away to have your adresss plastered on every junk mail list in NA like the
- Windows internet explorer kit came with.
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