Hi Jerry,
You've been reading too many M$ 'white papers'. How long has
Never read one, are they good?
Win95 been out? M$ announced they will no sell or longer support it.
True. But you don't have to upgrade if you don't want to. BTW, I think you can even still buy Win95 if you are a business. I remember back in the DOS days that MS would actually cut off the supply of all the previous versions before they released the new ones. Since we were
On Saturday 10 February 2001 23:22, Timothy R. Butler wrote: pushing boxes we needed a license to ship with each. It could really become a PITA. One time it go so bad the only coppies of DOS we could find in the whole DC area were bad counterfeit. Talk about dictating terms to your customer!
That means no one is going to write new software for it or maintain existing software for it. Win95 users are now frozen in time. They are on their own little island. They will NOT be able to add a patch to make the USB more functional, if at all. They won't be able to use the newest
Granted. But, if they were using Win95, most likely they don't use USB on that computer. Their next computer will come with USB and WinME or 2k.
Or Linux!
True. Although, I have Word 2k configured to save in 97 format... (although I mainly work in WP format).
What the world needs is a good _open_ XML office documentation interchange format. To be quite honest, the reason I am not working on problems at that level is because I find there are problems which exist between the kernel and the UI level that deserve (or demand) my attention. For example do an ls /usr/X11R6/bin and tell me what application owns what file in that listing. Talk about a c:\winnt\system32 from hell! How do we maintain such a mess? suppose I want to completely remove _everything_ from my X11 install and start fresh. How do I do this without also messing up all the other installs that have infested the X11 file tree? How can we fix this when so much already relies on the "broken" implementation?
Win98SE cost $20 to upgrade to for 98 users, Me was simply $49.
I agree with you on this one. That is, assuming this is actually an *upgrade*. Why would anybody stay with 7 year old technology when it's easy to keep up with more recent innovations. Heck, I can't stand using last weeks technology. I have limited experience with 95, less than an hour with 98 and I don't know if I've even seen DOS/Windows ME. I have extensive experience with NT from its first beta to W2K. NT 4.6 seems to work better for me than W2K-b2. The latter OS is just plain unstable as a desktop. The only reason I ever boot into W2K (which is on the other side of the boot I am currently using) is to run things such as XMetal or Word. I soon find myself trying to use CYGWin and XEmacs for Win32 as soon as I realize how many limitations there are, and how badly Swing runs in that environment I'm back to Linux.
Those other OSs? Win95 and Win98. Truely amazing! Bill Gates has been denying for years that there were any bugs in his software or that they were unstable. Now he's attacking his own software to sell W2K !!!
Yeah. I like the cut out BSOD they include in each issue of eWeek.
I saw someone else on this list describe their experience installing W2K and getting a BSOD almost immediately. Here too. I have a lot of problems with W2K. I'm not saying this because I don't like MS. I'm saying this because it is true. The OS doesn't work well for me. It just doesn't! But I should not be wasting my time knocking MS. I should be trying to improve Linux to the point where I am happy with it. If that is possible. (I mean for me to be satisfied with any OS) I will say the KDE 2.1 f*n' rocks! This thing is the Metallica of the Desktop! What is most impressive about it is the fact that these folks seem to have made a programming environment that allows for rapid development of slick quality product with all the cool desktop functionality we have come to expect, as well as many features we never expected. I am not easily impressed. This product impresses me very much. Steve