19 Sep
1998
19 Sep
'98
4:27 p.m.
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Scott Walde wrote:
When I started selling computers in 1990, we had Aldus
Pagemaker (v?) on
the shelf. It included run-time windows v2.x.
Did this practice stop with Windows v3.0? Everything anyone has mentioned
here was v1 or v2.
Yes, Microsoft was intent on positioning Win3 as an operating system, not
as a mere GUI. As a developer at the time, I found this a bit presumptious
of them :-) I distinctly remember asking a Microsofty if Win3 would be
released in run-time form and getting a terse "no." It was clearly a
strategic descision.
-- Doug