At 05:17 AM 7/27/99 +0000, you wrote:
>On 26 Jul 99 at 7:19, John Oram wrote:
>
> >
> > Consumer Windows, code named Millennium, was announced
> > early this month touting the removal of legacy I/O support.
>
>Removing Legacy support is a BAD idea.
>(read "bad" with extremly bold, and underlined fonts.)
Yep, they're gonna be strictly new computer oriented.
>Saying bye bye to DOS is not going to be as easy as microsoft presume,
>and as we all in this list allready know. I think that they will
>have to preper their tech support and costumer support departments
>to quite a rain of complaints.
No, because the market they are *after* is not us, but the users who just
want to plunk down money, take home the new toy, plug it in to the wall and
phone, and go play on the net, bothering people in usenet, spamming for
money (direct marketing) and looking for pics of naked people.
The rest of us will buy elsewhere, making the market a little more
diverse. We'll keep using and creating programs for win95, businesses will
keep their old systems because after all, win95 works and isn't going down
on Y2K and anyway everyone has already upgraded for it.
This move is to corner the holdouts in the home market, the compuphobic who
nonetheless want to join in the computer revolution.
You hadda know this was coming, the drive has always been to creat the
simplest, most user friendly interface possible, from the MAC OS on down to
millenium.
>First to complain will be computer owners that are still using legacy
>cards among the PnP ones (and I should know - I am one of them),
>next it will be buisnesses and people who use small yet vital DOS
>based software. Not to mention "old" computers, where Win Y2K will
>not even boot on anyway. (and if it will - it will be slower then
>the a turtle on weels.).
>
>What happened to that "dos emulator" thing that I heard can be
>found on NT? Did they removed it?
>
> Or Botton
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