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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18099)	3/20/1998 2:49:00 AM
From: Scott Pease	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

So, what's the deal with the OEMs, wanting this OSR malarkey? Who cares about all the bug fixes, Fat32, new drivers? The customers obviously want the original retail release, otherwise Microsoft, which cares about its customers, would be giving the retail suckers, I mean customers, the up-to-date OSR stuff too. Sorry Daniel, but I still don't understand what you are trying to say. Microsoft has said they don't offer OSR2 at retail because there are no FAT32 conversion utilities -- OSR2 is only meant to be included with new machines. Win98 does include a FAT32 conversion utility, so they will be offering a retail Win98. Win98 also includes new drivers, bug fixes (and probably new bugs :-), etc. Personally I don't find Win98 compelling enough to upgrade, but if your hypothetical users want the latest and greatest they can get it. Also, by the way, Win95 is not the top software program -- pcdata.com shows that tax programs are topping the list for now. If you are saying they should release a version of OSR2 that includes the FAT32 convertor at retail, you might be right. However, very few companies go back and retrofit older releases with the latest features (we used to have a SunOS 4.1.3 machine around here, try to get patches from Sun for that!).