Re: Windows 3.1 to Windows 95

[voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

First off, I never upgrade an OS until it's been shaken out for a while, and
the serious bugs from the release have been fixed (the same goes for
FrameMaker releases, which have been historically buggy upon release). That
said, I was ecstatic to upgrade my home PC from 3.1 to 95 - I had to hand
patch some memory locations in 3.1 every time I booted in order for it to
run some things I had loaded into it (don't remember specifically what or
why anymore, only that I had to do it).

I never used Win 3.1 in a work environment - we were using minicomputers or
mainframes, that were running some version of UNIX, or Apollo OS, IBM System
32 (or DEC VMS).

The first time I had to use Microsoft at work, it was Windows NT.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Paul Hanson <phanson -at- quintrex -dot- com> wrote:

> Microsoft likes to change things up. Prior to the Office 2003 to Office
> 2007, I can point to Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 as a shift in the UI that
> moved things around.
>
> 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.
>
> Paul Hanson
> Technical Writer
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