MS Laugh-In

18 Oct 2000

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   I take it the market doesn't yet trust W2000 and
SP3 will be a while yet.  Most people have no desire to update their OS from W95 or
W98, not broken
 don't fix it attitude. 
"not broken"!??????!?????!????!????!????!?????!??
w95 or w98 is "not broken"???????????????????????
Consider, instead, the idea that some folk would not like to replace
broken with even more broken.

  Standing in line, and paying full price for beta
 software has lost its chic. 
W2000 is no longer Beta.
WinBlow Me is no longer Beta?

  Stability is currently more popular than
 features. 
Wouldst that 'twere so.
MICROS~1 sales have not fallen off enough to support the premise that the
public has learned to desire stability. 
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.

Anything prior to about the second service pack release I call Beta.

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.

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