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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 05:49:10 GMT
- Organization: Nova Scotia Technology Network
- Message-ID: <4fmkcm$kd5@news.nstn.ca>
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- In <311e19ca.3403230@news>, an500029@anon.penet.fi (A User) writes:
- >Hi Guys
- > First of all, I do use Win95 and I like it. It's much better than
- >Windows 3.1 (interface, performance, resources). I've seen little of
- >OS/2 (there's not much to see anyway), and I didn't like it. I
- >installed it once (OS/2 2.1), and was crashing more than Windows 3.1
- >at the time, so I took it off.
- >
- > I know that Warp is better than OS2 2.1 but I never gave it a try.
- >Why? Well because there are no native applications for it. And when
-
- No ? Get real, if there was no native applications, then the apps in the bonus
- pack wouldn't even exist.
-
- >I say applications, I mean something like Adobe Pagemaker, Corel draw
-
- Describe, Color Works
-
- >(OS/2 has Corel Version 3.0) 6.0, Borland Delphi.... (I'm not even
-
- Borland C++
-
- >going to mention the Microsoft Apps, because I know you just hate
- >them). When OS/2 people say they have 2500 apps, most of these apps
- >are basically Shareware, nothing major (except from IBM). A lot of
-
- Something wrong with shareware? Let me remind you Doom is shareware.
-
- >people are talking about how good Warp is, maybe it is better than
- >Windows 95 (maybe much better), but you don't just buy an OS to just
- >look at it, you want to run applications, many applications, many
- >native applications.
-
- And for those of us who want to do it all at the same time, WARP is the answer.
-
- >
- > I also think that OS/2 interface is too hard for a lot of users.
- >For example when I try to access Drive A (with no disk in it), I get a
- >popup message asking me if I wanted to return an Error Code to the
- >program or to do something else; Why? Just tell me that there's no
- >disk in Drive A? Also, I really think that you need at least 16 MB
-
- Read the manual, you could have changed that.
-
- >Ram (just like 95) to get an acceptable performance from Warp.
-
- With no tuning, true.
-
- >
- > Now, for the future, there is nothing better than Windows NT. I
- >have a pentium 90 (16 MB Ram) so I'm stuck on 95 for today (tommorrow
- >I'm going to get my Pentium Pro 200). But I think NT has it all, the
- >stability, the performance (Alpha's, Power PC's and Pentium Pro's),
- >and now the applications.
- >
- > And why don't you (Team OS/2) just go back to your comp.os.os2.bugs
- >where you belong.... I'm tired of hearing you all over the internet
- >talking about how good is IBM and Warp and how bad is Microsoft is.
-
- Yes, I likelistening to you say how good NT and Win 95 are and how bad IBM is.
-
- >
- > One more thing, people complain that MS bundled MSN into 95! I
- >tried running a telnet application from Warp once and it gave me a
- >messgae box asking me if I wanted to connect to an IBM internet
- >provider although I was already connected through my ISP.......
-
- It SAYS do you wish to connect to the IBM provider or ANOTHER provider, geesh
- you can't even read, very good.
-
- >
-
-
- gator@atcon.com
- Team OS/2 N.S.
- Canada
-
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