Your news story on Windows 95 (New on the Menu, October '95, page 30) was a better treatment of the subject than is usual from Mac people. However, many of Windows' compatibility problems result from the plethora of PC-hardware manufacturers. Let dozens of companies build Macs, and see what happens!
Macs still do not have a preemptive multitasking system. And before Mac users say much about software compatibility problems with Windows, they should consider the list of software incompatible with System 7.
And must Mac users be so arrogant about their machines? They seem to scoff at -- and usually can't use -- any device that does not have an icon to click on.
Greg Brenneman
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Windows 95 looks and feels just like the Macintosh operating system, and this could spell the end for Apple. But you know what? The look and feel of Windows 95 reaffirms the Mac interface. Just a couple of years ago, DOS users ridiculed the Mac's "childish" interface. Now all those PC users are eating their words!
Eric Herbas
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It's about time Apple aggressively advertised against Windows 95 (as it did in the October issue of MacUser), but why place a four-page ad in a Mac magazine when the ad is addressed to PC users? Apple's absolutely right in sarcastically contrasting the Mac OS with Windows, but the ad blitz should have been directed at the Windows audience, not at those of us who have already seen the light.
Wilbur M. Rabinowitz
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One thing I do know: You wouldn't see Mac users lining up at midnight to make their machines run more like PCs running Windows.
