Re: If Windows 98 is delayed, we're all in trouble?

[Dan Strychalski <dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw>]

Quoth Gene Gaines (ggaines@generation.net) -- 

> Personally, I think the growth in the acceptance of the personal
> computer in home and office has a heck of a lot more going for it
> than Windows 98.

Reminds me of a line I've heard many times: that Windows was
instrumental in making it possible for the average person to use
computers. Being of average accomplishments myself; having acquired
my first computer, an Apple II, by accident; having been so happy
with it that I had to be coerced into going to the computer club
meeting that led to my learning the difference between a bit and a
byte, I can't help but wonder where people got this notion.

Interestingly, I met one unusually ardent advocate of this view on a
mailing list devoted to discussion of an MS/PC DOS-based browser.

(One person who might agree is a pal of mine who says a text-only
screen display makes him physically ill. This particular fellow has
the title of technical writer and makes a living editing material he
doesn't comprehend in the slightest. This is called progress.)

> I would like to hear the reasons why "... delayed shipment of
> Windows 98 ... could disrupt the entire computer industry by
> causing consumers to delay purchases of new systems."

People actually expect W98 to make up for the shortcomings of W95?

Dan Strychalski                           dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw