Robert Salasidis (salasidis@medcor.mcgill.ca) wrote:
: Martin Nisshagen wrote:
: > Fact two: NT and Win95 will *not* merge according to MS.
:
: I don't think that you can take at face value what MS is saying about W95 and WinNT. It is philosophically obvious that WinNT and Win95 are heading to an
: eventual merger (32 bit software is interoperable, W95 approved software needs to run on NT). When this will happen is another matter. It is to Microsoft's
: interest to convince people that W95 and WNT will not merge so that to convince users (esp the corporate world) to upgrade to W95. Myself personally, I will
: switch to WinNT for everyday use when I have upgraded the last of my 16bit software to 32 (Only 2-3 programs remain for me).
Or they will diverge and one will be dropped. . .probably 95. It's a piece
of crap compared to NT. Then again, NT sucks compared to a bunch of
other OSes so. . .
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