Subject: Re: Another: can't *not* buy Win95 on Dell or Gateway
Leonard F. Thomas (quill@codenquill.win.net)
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 05:43:02 -0800
Message-Id: <AA399@codenquill.win.net> To: roundtable@cni.org Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 05:43:02 -0800 Subject: Re: Another: can't *not* buy Win95 on Dell or Gateway From: quill@codenquill.win.net (Leonard F. Thomas)
Larry D. Sharp <ldsharp@mwbb.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, the machine I use most is a Micron TransPortXKE with a Pentium
> 233, not the hottest box going, but not exactly on the bleeding edge.
> For the past few years I have been using a series of notebooks as my
> primary computer, and used the old box as a backup - and actually even
> more I used it for the fun and challenge of the upgrading process. I
> added a new CPU (a "586" was the best you could do on the old
> motherboard), added as much memory as the motherboard would hold, and
> bolted in a new, larger hard drive.
>
> And my copy of Windows 95 was not an upgrade. (I had had a problem in
> the past when I moved from Word Perfect to Microsoft Word via an
> upgrade. When I added a new hard drive, I found the old WP disks had
> been damaged and would not load, so I had a devil of a time figuring out
> how to load the upgrade. It can be done, though.) So I had every right
> to believe that I would be able to use the Windows 95 I had purchased on
> a new machine. My question was really addressed to the economics of the
> issue. The option I propose would seem to make sense for me and for the
> manufacturer, but not for Microsoft, yet it is not available. What are
> the market forces that produce this anomaly?
"make sense ... but not for Microsoft" You answered your own
question as to market force - M$'s. There is an anti-trust
lawsuit pending on this issue: Caldera's DR_DOS. The DOJ/MS
consent decree addressed this issue (but was toothless).
Leonard F. Thomas
quill@codenquill.win.net
http://www.win.net/~codenquill
I prefer mosquito infested grizzly bear country.
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