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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ToySoldier who wrote (8933)	7/4/1998 10:35:00 AM
From: miraje	Respond to of 74651

One our customers did a lot of research on weather (sic) to upgrade all their Windows for Workgroup PCs across Canada to Win95 or NT4. After checking several of their software on both, they clearly decided that NT workstation was too slow and incompatible with critical programs / applications that they needed. Running Win3.11 on what, 486-40's w/4 or 8 meg of RAM and a 1 gig hard drive (or smaller)? Just the kind of machines to run NT efficiently, not. I am very satisfied with Win95 and will likely stay with it until MSFT has worked all the Win98 bugs out and I somehow get ahold of a free copy somewhere (a promo I hope). I sure as hell wont pay for a few minor features. Win98 is a bug fix for Win95. Around 3,000 or so, I've heard. As far as the new features are concerned, some want them and some don't. The jury is still out on ultimate sales numbers. As far as cost, getting an enhanced OS for the same price as a few months of internet service sounds like a good deal to me. I see that you've been a cheerleader on the NOVL board. Nothing wrong with that, but a degree of objectivity when posting here will gain you more respect. Regards, JB

To: ToySoldier who wrote (8933)	7/4/1998 3:28:00 PM
From: mauser96	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Actually to even call Windows 95 (or Windows 98) an operating system is stretching the truth. they both are really overlays or shells over a DOS operating system. This was necessary originally because so many heritage programs were DOS. By Microsoft's own admission these shells are obsolescent, and Windows 98 will be the last of it's kind. It is strictly an interim solution. My personal experience with Windows 95 is that it crashes almost every day. These crashes are more annoyance than anything else, but there are lots of other flaws with Windows 95. One of it's worst one is leaving files scattered over your hard disk that can interfere with other programs even if you try to remove the offending program. I agree that the present versions of NT are best in the office. I won't upgrade to a new operating system unless I buy a new computer. However, the arrival of NT 5 will act as a good incentive to buy a new computer once I'm sure the main bugs are worked out. In a few years anybody using Windows 95 will no longer be able to obtain the best new software, and it will be as out of date as DOS is today. I suppose there will always be a few stingy souls who stick to old technology, the technological equivalent of a farthingale, but most users will move on to the increased stability and usefulness of NT5. This will become a stampede within a year of it's release. good investing