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Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom  Samurai, Windows For Workgroups had networking --- wasn't that 3.11? I forget. |
That's true, I didn't mention it because we are talking about consumer version. Even the first version of NT (3.1) came before Win95 I think. But I am not sure how many used WfW, I never saw it used, it couldn't break the monopoly of Netware, Banyan Wines or PC-NFS which were everywhere in corporate world.
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Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom But stretching the product? Their imperative is changing it so we buy the new version, that's all. It's not demand led. It's not as if we're queueing up at MS's door begging for a new OS because what we have already doesn't do what we want. |
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Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom Doesn't it do what we want just fine? |
Hmm, if we think like that, automobiles would have never progressed beyond Ford Model T. And only computers would be mainframes. No, companies have to constantly innovate or they will perish. Sure, often new ideas fail causing great inconvinience to users. But sometimes they change the world.
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And yes, the IBM RS-6000s I used to run almost never required a reboot: they would run for years.
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And how much did it cost?
