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From: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Does everybody hate Windows?
Keywords: Windows, success, hate, Microsoft=devil, Microsoft=god
Message-ID: <57014@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 90 19:12:29 GMT
References: <1990Aug27.204452.9786@tc.fluke.COM>
Reply-To: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
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Organization: Microsoft International Products Group
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You may read my "Organization:" line and disregard this message if you
choose.

I like Win3 a lot.

I was able to set it up and get it running successfully without ever
reading the manual.  (I'll admit that I did read the README file.) I was
very impressed the first time I saw Windows auto-detect my equipment
configuration!  All I had to do was hit the Enter key when it showed the
list of my equipment, because it was all correct.

I use Win3 to multitask DOS programs on my 386; at all times I have three
or four DOS shells open, one or two terminal emulators open, and my
personal information manager (_Info Select_ by Micro Logic; it is great).
I can hot-key directly to any of these with a single keystroke.

On my Windows Desktop I have Word for Windows, and I have yet to open the
manual to it.  I have been using it for months!  I know there are *major*
features I am not using -- such as the "WordBasic" language -- but I have
used the product to do a lot of stuff, even doing things like including
images I drew in Microsoft Windows Paint into my documents.  This
experience has converted me to a GUI believer.

I really like the hypertext-style help system available inside Windows
programs.  I used this to figure out all the Accessories that came with
Windows.

I also enjoy Windows games, and from time to time I run Excel or some other
Windows application.
-- 
Steve "I don't speak for Microsoft" Hastings    ===^=== :::::
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