Re: tlug: Success of Windows

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

On 25 Jun 1998, Felix Morley Finch wrote:

>I don't remember when Windows 3.1 became available, but up until then
>Mickeysoft success rode the DOS wagon.  I don't see the Windows GUI as
>being any kind of key to success, other than being *a* GUI.  It could

Windows 95 probably shipped more copies in its first year of
distribution than all other flavors of Windows that went before it
probably ever did.  In the Windows 3.x era, there were still quite a few
people using just regular DOS, or 4DOS, or DOS and Desqview.  Windows 95
killed of everything else, and drove a stake through the heart of the
Mac as well, which was still pretty popular in the Windows 3.x era.
The interface of Windows 95 is worlds better than the 3.x interface, and
that's what drove it.  Go around and ask some Windows 95 users what
32-bit means and see how few can tell you.  It wasn't being (more or
less) 32-bit that sold them.  It was the interface early-on.  Now it's
the interface, the applications, and the fact that for most people,
there really isn't any other choice (Linux or any other flavor of UNIX
is still pretty far from being a realistic choice for most people).

Cheers,

Jonathan Byrne
Media and Content Section
3Web - Your Internet Solution! <URL:http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/index.en.html>

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