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To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (6113)	4/24/1998 4:42:00 PM
From: WeisbrichA	Read Replies (2) of 74651

Halo Darrell, RE: "will most current win 95 users buy another horse (win 98) when the current horse their riding (win 95) works fine? " It is rather like replacing your quarter horse with a thoroughbred. I have Beta-3 for three weeks now. Like Doreen on this thread, I keep finding very nice things in W98. I am in the IT industry and so I am more venturesome in tearing into the product. IMO, most W95 users have the attitude "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". "Nice" things don't necessarily move people to new products. Look at the millions of W3.1(1) users still dumb and happy with their current O/S. W98 will not, IMHO, be a replacement enmass for W95, but will be shipped for all new systems. Mostly the "gotta have the latest" crowd will be candidates for the ~$100 upgrade. If MSFT wants to do a lot of replacements, I believe that they will have to lower the upgrade price to somewhere around $60-70. W98 upgrade, after all, is a lot easier than going from 3.11 to W95. Ciao RW

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