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- From: sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Why Windows NT will fail -----
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.030525.31852@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 03:05:25 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Dec11.162632.1046@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>, jmalloy@itsmail1.hamil
- ton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy) writes:
- >In article <8052@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes
- :
- >>
- >>Indeed. WPS is a whole new way of thinking about the user interface. That's
- >>why folks have a hard time adapting to it from Windows: they have to change
- >>the way they think.
- >>--
- >>Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- >>jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- >> "All [Windows] NT has is a lot of journalists fooled." -- Brian Button
- >
- >A paradigm shift is one thing, but the mere fact of a paradigm shift
- >does not make the shift good. The WPS is, in my opinion, a fine example
- >of making a bad thing worse. If IBM were smart, they'd cajole Symantec
- >into making a Norton Desktop for OS/2 that looks just like the ND for
- >Windows. I might even be tempted to try OS/2 again if that were
- >available.
-
- Why? NDW looks a *lot* more like the WPS than the WinGUI. In fact the
- similarities are pretty frightening in a lot of ways.
-
- That aside, Symantec may be doing just that, they just tend to be quiet about
- what they are developing. They released Norton Commander for OS/2 without any
- hint that they were even working on such a beast.
-
- >
- >jmalloy@hamilton.edu
- >
-
- --
- Stacy John Behrens
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