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From: keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu (John W. Keating)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Query:  Which would you recommend?  Windows?  or OS2 w/ PM?
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Date: 19 Sep 90 05:59:58 GMT
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Here's a question for the net:

I was looking through some magazines lately and came up with these (rounded,
from memory) figures:

OS2 SE/PM:  $295        Windows:        $129
			MS-DOS:         $ 65
	    ----                        ----
	    $295                        $194

A difference of only $101.  For an operating system that leaps as far ahead
of MSDOS as OS2 does, and for a better integrated GUI, that seems an awful
small price to pay.

This brings up a few questions in my mind.  Why would anyone buy Windows
when such a better alternative is available for a comparative price?

Also, why doesn't Microsoft try to push OS2 more?  I can see how they would
be afraid to at this time, considering how Windows 3.0 has taken off, but
why didn't they before?  And will they in the future?

Disclaimer:  I have used both OS2 and Windows 3.0, and they are both (in my
	     eyes) good products.  I am not Windows bashing here.