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- From: cebarton@napier.waterloo.edu (Casey Barton)
- Subject: Re: Impressions of the July NT Release
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:43:57 GMT
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- Bailey Brown writes:
- >Gess Shankar writes:
- >>...I, like some others on the net, subscribe to the theory
- >>that one of important reasons for Win 3.1 success is '3d buttons'. In
- >>this era, 'image is everything' and I think Microsoft, above all, knows this.
- >
- >OS/2 1.2 had 3D buttons. The reason for Win 3.0's success was v86 mode,
- >which OS/2 didn't have until 2.0.
-
- How about: "The reasons for Win 3.x's success are 3D buttons and a
- marketing division that _isn't_ full of mindless idiots."
-
- IBM's marketing division could give Douglas Adam's "Sirius Cybernetics"
- marketing division a run for the money, any day.
- --
- Casey Barton (Mr.) cebarton@descartes.waterloo.edu (519)725-6861
-