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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Does everybody hate Windows?
Keywords: Windows, success, hate, Microsoft=devil, Microsoft=god
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.195506.1696@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 28 Aug 90 19:55:06 GMT
References: <1990Aug27.204452.9786@tc.fluke.COM>
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Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL
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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.
>
>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.

Personally, I like it a lot.  I use Windows Word to type in my letters.  While
I'd prefer that WordPerfect were available for Windows, Windows Word is not
bad at all.  I like it better than using DOS Word, that's for sure.  I also
use Excel for my expense reports and it is a LOT better than Lotus ever was.
At this very moment I'm using DynaComm for my terminal and like that a lot.
It's great to be able to download a file and do some work while that is
happening (after downloading all those nethack files it's something I can
really appreciate).  I also have a few games that I use and I use the Paint
program or Designer to do some graphic work.  Oh yeah, let us not forget
Page Maker.  I've tried laying my hands on Ventura since I think it would
meet my needs more readily, but PageMaker is still GREAT to use.

However, I do run this on a 386 with 3Meg of memory and a 20MHz speed, so
my performance isn't too shabby.  Oh, and having Paula Abdul or Paulina
in my background as a bitmap doesn't hurt either.  @:)

Basically I like Windows a lot since, if I want a windowing system I can
have one, but if I don't I can either open a DOS Window or just quit out
of Windows.  The one reason I've never gotten a MAC is that I don't know
if I could stand being forced to use the Windowing.
-- 
"Organized fandom is composed of a bunch of nitpickers with a thing for
 trivial pursuit."  -Harlan Ellison

Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us