> W95 and W98 are both working fine for me. I have been paranoid enough to
> apply all the patches etc. (flash bios, etc.), and avoid any new MS
> products until the bug fixes come out. Working to me means, the programs I
> want to use will run, and right now they do.
There do exist some situations where 95 and 98 work acceptably.
and some were they don't. One person's success does not
necessarily invalidate the existence of somebody else's problems.
> Anything prior to about the second service pack release I call Beta.
AH. Your own personal definition of the terminology.
> >Wouldst that 'twere so.
> >MICROS~1 sales have not fallen off enough to support the premise that the
> >public has learned to desire stability.
> MS can migrate ALL the new system vendors, so those OS sales are in the
> can, what I don't think is happening are the upgrades of W9x to these
> latest versions.
That does not account for the strong retail sales of "Upgrade" editions.
I wish that you were right.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Wed Oct 18 2000 - 14:17:18 BST