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From: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Does everybody hate Windows?
Keywords: Windows, success, hate, Microsoft=devil, Microsoft=god
Message-ID: <8385@fy.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 28 Aug 90 18:19:16 GMT
References: <1990Aug27.204452.9786@tc.fluke.COM>
Reply-To: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
Organization: Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <1990Aug27.204452.9786@tc.fluke.COM> sota@tc.fluke.COM (Bruce White) writes:
>How about some postings from people who use, and like, Windows.  Tell us what
>you use it for, why you like it, whether you use it with non-Windows Apps, what
>kind of machine you use, etc..  I would love to hear some testimonials.

BEGIN Testimonial;

1.  I was first sold on windows when I used v1.04 to write a graduate paper
using MS write and Twin spreadsheet(DOS). Windows allowed me to integrate the
graphics from twin into write, it came out real well.  Only used windows
when I needed this integration (anytime I wrote, which was often).

2. Upgraded to win2.0 and used it in the same manner until the shareware
package Command Post showed up.  Command Post made windows useable
more often.  Only had to leave windows for large programs (integrated
compilers, word processing, large spreadsheets, games, etc) which was over
half the time.  Bought Excel to replace Twin and got Q+E (windows database)
as my first real windows applications.  Bought Actor (academic price)
with hopes to learn windows/OOP but also be able to write short utilites
that run under windows (memory hogs - <sigh>). (Using an 8Mhz 2 Mb AT clone)

3. Windows 3.0.  Only leave windows when I unfragment my disk. Bought Word
for Windows (upgraded everthing else) and Cross Talk for Windows.  Just
returned from three years in Europe (little access to shareware via BBS)
and took the plunge into Compu$erve.  Found enough windows utilities to
stay in windows during disk house keeping chores.  Love being able to
drag complete directories around the disk (I use a Mac II SE at work). 
Real nice not to worry about memory limitations for the programs I run -
and they all reasonably exchange data.  Actor still hasn't become the
Turbo Pascal of Windows, and windows is slow compared to DOS based programs.
(Using 16mhz 386 w/8Mb 20+30mb disks).

4.  Hoping my windows applications will one day be able to run under OS/2
without buying complete new versions.  Still real interested in X windows
as an across platform standard for graphic display control.

END Testimonial;

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