On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:58:17, Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro wrote:
>At 12:31 29/06/99 +0200, you wrote:
>>> If Windows wasn't good and easy-to-use then it wouldn't have been
>>> installed
>>> on (almost) every new PC.
>>
>>Hold it there!!
>>Most PC-buyers are a bunch of lamers, who bought a PC:
>>1-To 'keep up with time'
>>2-To play games
>>3-There kids needed a computer for school
>>4-To visit all those pornsites on the net
>>
>>They have a hard time already, learning how to click and double clik on
>>the buttons and they are happy that there is already an OS on their PC.
>>WATHEVER that OS may be.
>>
>>The fact that it's the default installed OS is just good marketing from
>>M$. If IBM had done a better job promoting OS/2 (technically better then
>>95 when they both came out), the world would now have an other look.
>>
>>David Heremans
>>
>
> IBM earns more money with OS/2 than M$ with Win9x.
> Nearly 90% of the Forbes' Top 500 companies uses OS/2.
That's not true, IBM earns money also with OS/400 & co. and not like WinXX, but OS/2
is the most
used SO in large companies like banks (where you need your pc working all the day and
not only 10 minutes
between a blue screen and another :-)))
by Frengo
Miri Software MSX Computer System Italy
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HomePage : http://Frengo.dragonfire.net/MSX.HTM
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