Re: tlug: Success of Windows

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

On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

>else.  The mac, arguably, has a better interface than Win95, but it
>doesn't run as many programs as Win95... I think that the software support
>is really what sold people on Win95.

"Arguably" as in "I'd be willing to argue that" :-)  I don't like the
Mac interface and think Windows 95 is quite superior, actually.
Moreover, at the time that Windows 95 came out, the application
imbalance didn't exist.  MacOS and Win95 stood about even, and
absolutely all of cool new image tools and things came out for Mac
first.  Now it's the other way around.  Even Debabelizer, a tool that
was sort of a flagship among Mac products, and one that had no decent
Windows counterpart for a very long time, swung around.  Debabelizer Pro
was developed for Win 95 first.

It's great that Linux has come to the point where it can actually make
headway and get so much press in the face of such market domination.
Maybe Apple needs to pitch MacOS and make PPC Linux their standard OS
:-)

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

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