CompuServe Messages

<<I'd be curious if your opinions derive from (a) first-hand knowledge, (b) an astute analysis of technical information and marketing plans either unavailable to the greater number of users or not really compiled in any single place or (c) careful guesses.>> Well I made these deductions myself. The biggest reason is that WinNT is exactly that, New Technology, it is an operating system built from the ground up. It is the most flexible operating system, possible outside of NextStep, that exists on PCs. The reason being that Digital, who were really the masterminds behind WinNT, have gleaned years of experience working with UNIX and minicomputers that when they developed WinNT they overcame all of the shortcomings that makes UNIX such a big mass of stick-ons and band-aids. UNIX wasn't designed for rapid change neither in software or hardware advances, whereas WinNT was designed specifically for this purpose. For many years operating systems have lagged behind hardware and processor developments. We've had 32bit processors for years now and yet only now is a 32bit operating system available to the masses. WinNT changes that with it's HAL. If someone comes along tomorrow and develops a new processor then WinNT can run on it by creating HAL for it. It's that simple. Also with WinNTs client-server paradigm you can begin to taste what a true object-oriented operating system can offer. You simply take out a component and then add another. This is why WinNT can support any graphical interface it wants. It is incredibly flexible. This flexibility is what makes WinNT the future. Finally we have an operating system that can keep up with the pace of technological change and Microsoft always want to be riding the crest of this wave. What is more blatant is that Cairo will be the next version of WinNT which will be a true object oriented operating system, and this is the future whereas no plans have been stated for making Win95 truely object oriented. So it is clear where Microsoft is leading us, slowly but surely. <<Then again, maybe our reluctance to embrace any Windows-based system is due to the fact that we're just dinosaurs who like the c-prompt. ;-)>> Very true, and the Win95 hate mail is surely piling up at Microsoft, but frankly I don't think they care since all manufactures NEED to get their "Designed for Windows 95" logo in order to stay competitive so all new computers will have to Win95 compatible.