Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!samsung!xylogics!transfer!lectroid!angmar.sw.stratus.com!jmann From: jmann@angmar.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Does everybody hate Windows? Keywords: Windows, success, hate, Microsoft=devil, Microsoft=god Message-ID: <2144@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> Date: 28 Aug 90 12:22:35 GMT References: <1990Aug27.204452.9786@tc.fluke.COM> Sender: usenet@lectroid.sw.stratus.com Reply-To: jmann@angmar.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann) Distribution: na Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc. Lines: 16 In article <1990Aug27.204452.9786@tc.fluke.COM>, sota@tc.fluke.COM (Bruce White) writes: |>From reading this newsgroup, one could conclude that there are so many |>problems associated with installing and running Windows, that everybody hates |>it. Yet the popular press shows Microsoft selling godzillions of copies. |>Since so many people are buying it, some of them must like it. |> The nature of these newsgroups is that people usually post when they have a problem and are looking for help. Thus you see a lot of "I tried doing foo but it didn't work. What's wrong?" I think most people DO like Windows 3.0. The volume on this group has increased drastically since its release. Some days we have as many postings on here as I used to see in a whole week 6 months ago. Jim jmann@es.stratus.com