[NTLUG:Discuss] MS XP Throw it in the trash!

[Michael B. Lee]

hahaha!!!! OH YEAH... MB Bob! I totally forgot about that. And as for the
pre-3.1 days you reminded me of something else I completely forgot
about... Geoworks was the BEST. I was using that right until Windows 3.1
came out. heh.




On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Mike Hart wrote:

> The WORST thing that microsoft has ever put out was
> DOS 4.0  It would proceed to corrupt your hard drive
> completely when you attempted to intall anything
> besides dos onto the computer..  it was on the market
> for about 3 weeks. Within 3 months, they issued
> several minor upgrades to it (4.0.x, 4.x) before
> giving up.  They then continued to ship 3.3x until DOS
> 5 came out about 18 months later.
>
> The next worst thing they've put out was Bob.  It was
> supposed to replace windows 3 for home users with an
> 'office assistant' type character that knew you're
> needs better than you.  It was available for about a
> month before they pulled it.  Who here keeps office
> assistant running?  Need I say more?
>
> Number 3 would be the original windows 98 (OEM
> version).  This version installs and runs great until
> you attempt to make any hardware changes, when it
> forgets to remove your old drivers, and you proceed to
> corrupt your registration database. Note this is the
> original 98, not 98B or 98SE.
>
> Windows 1.x ranks in there somewhere.  I never got to
> see a working copy of it, but the reviews were pretty
> bad, and it never seemed to make it to retail shelves
> around here. In the days of original windows, just
> about all of the competition had better reviews.
> Geoworks, OS2, PC-tools, and countless shareware
> 'menu' programs all provided better user interfaces
> than the trumped up dos shell they shipped as windows.
> (if you run winfile.exe, that is the nth generation of
> original windows.)  The reviews I read said that dos
> 5.0 with dos shell in graphic mode was a far more
> stable and easier to use user interface than windows.
>
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