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- From: jamesch@ix.netcom.com (James Chamblin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: The Genius of Bill Gates
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 13:29:35 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
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- In article <4djv0d$ju8@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>,
- Phil Hoff <phoff@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
- >It is a tribute to the marketing genius of Bill Gates that he has been
- >able to get computer users worldwide to shell out about one billion
- >dollars for a virus (Windows 95) that actually takes control of your
- >computer and does things to it that you don't want done.
-
- That really isn't true. It's just that people expect Windows 95 to
- behave too much like Windows 3.1 It's really a whole new operating
- system. I've been using 95 almost since it came out and have had no
- problems (outside of what one normally expects from a first release).
- Of course, this is really a topic for another Newsgroup.
-