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From: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Where are you Windows 3?
Keywords: Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <3@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 90 18:44:52 GMT
References: <1990Mar29.132609.323@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk> <53979@microsoft.UUCP> <2844@leah.Albany.Edu>
Reply-To: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
Organization: Microsoft International Products Group
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In article <2844@leah.Albany.Edu> rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) writes:
>In article <blah>, steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) writes:
>> My understanding is that Microsoft wants to release the new Windows with as
>> few bugs as possible, i.e. none.
>
>Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha  ha. Ho.

I said, "Microsoft wants...as few bugs as possible", not "there will be no
bugs."


>A friend of mine in Geneva Switzerland says he has Windows 3.0. 
>He ain't no beta tester. 

I can only assume he has an unauthorized copy.  You didn't say where he got
it; are you saying Microsoft has started shipping Win 3 to Switzerland?


>I'm not trying to be a jerk about bugs, but any big program has
>bugs...and stuff like Steve's comment is fine for corporate
>chumps, but jeez to go saying something like that around here is
>pretty naive.
>
>Yo
>rob

Yes, any big program has bugs.  Win 3 will have bugs.  But according to
everything I have read or heard, the sole reason for delaying the shipment
of Win 3 is to make sure there are as few bugs as possible.

The sooner Microsoft starts shipping Win 3, the sooner it will make money
from Win 3.  Microsoft has no possible motive for needlessly delaying shipment,
or shipping Win 3 only to, say, Switzerland.

send_flame( rob, "You can't call me naive unless I get to call you a pest.");

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