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Subject:Re: Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"Paul Hanson" <phanson -at- Quintrex -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:55:50 -0800
I was a Windows 95 beta tester, and my recollection is
that the consensus among 3.1 users was theat 95 was
a major improvement. The one exception I recall was
that many people copied over the 3.1 File Explorer
because they preferred its layout.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Paul Hanson" <phanson -at- Quintrex -dot- com>
> I'm wondering... were any of you on a list back when Windows 95 was released
> on users that were used to Windows 3.1? Was there an outcry of complaints from
> users? Or do people think that 3.1 ==> 95 was not as big of a change as Office
> 2003 to Office 2007?
>
> I didn't know email even existed when I made the switch from 3.1 to 95 so I
> really don't know.
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