[Info-vax] Life after Digital

[P. Sture]

In article <hc6s8v$8uc$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>,
 m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) wrote:

> In article <0094e693$0$27969$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei
> <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> > 
> > The market share of OS-2 actually rose during a couple of years because
> > Microsoft was late with what was eventually called Windows 95.
> 
> By the time W95 came around OS/2 was already a lost case,
> at least in consumer space.
> In fact OS/2 already lost against W3.1.

I tried OS/2 just before Win95 came out. Various folks criticised it as 
"not as pretty as Windows colours", and too reminiscent of DOS style 
screens.

> > But Microsoft launched a marketing juggernaut with Windows 95, a tidal
> > wave nobody could resist. And everyone had been promised Windows 95
> > would be solid, robust, trustable.
> 
> I don't remember people buying it for being robust.
> They lined up in front of retail stores because it was the next cool toy. 
> Gates knew years before people would want a new toy.
>  

A awful lot of publicity was put in front of consumers. Even the story 
about Gates agreeing to pay a fortune for using the Rolling Stones' 
"Start Me Up" in the advertising hit headlines.

-- 
Paul Sture