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was introduced in mid-1996, I believe. If you bought a computer with
Windows95 installed on it, that was the version you got (for the past year
or a little more). Windows 95b was never a consumer (retail) product.
Windows 98 is supposed to be more stable than Windows 95, and to include
all the goodies that Windows 95b offered. My personal experience so far
supports those assertions. And while you will get IE4 in the package, it
doesn't really have to get in your way. You can remove the desktop icon
and/or start menu item that launches IE4 and, if you wish, replace them
with icons or links for Netscape Navigator. Once you have done that all you
are wasting is some disk space to store the unused IE4 files. At today's
prices for hard disks, that is probably an insignificant cost for most folks.
Bottom line: Microsoft expects to sell a lot of consumers upgrades to
Windows 98, but not very many corporations. (If you have a good IT
department they may have already installed enough patches to Windows 95a to
make it pretty much equivalent to Windows 98, and most corporations are
more conservative about upgrading than many consumers.
I hope this helps.
John
[I don't normally push this information, but to let you see something
of my background and perhaps lend credibility to my remarks, please
know that I am the author of "Peter Norton's Inside the PC," Seventh
Edition (Sams 1997, ISBN 0-672-31041-4), among other books.]
At 03:35 PM 5/20/98 -0700, you wrote:
>This is slightly off topic, but related as you will see:
>
>1. Someone mentioned a "B" release of Win95 which was supposed to work
>well with Dragon NS. I have downloaded all the updates and patches I know of
>and still have an "A" release version. In any case NS works just fine with
>that release, but I would upgrade to the b release if it easily obtainable.
>
>2. Regarding Win98, who needs it? I would be most happy with a
working,
>stable version of Win95, however that doesn't seem to be in the cards.
What I
>really dislike is the requirement that IE4 MUST be installed for Win98 to
even
>RUN, even if you don't like it or use it otherwise.
>
>Somehow I'd like to get that message to the government people who are filing
>all the cases against Microsoft. If they really wanted to get tough, they
>would require Microsoft to Include Office97 if they insist on weaving IE4
into
>the heart of the product.
>==================================================
> CP/M Computers did what you told them (if they understood).
> DOS Computers told you when they didn't understand.
> Windows Computers do whatever they damn well please,
> (and sometimes have the courtesy to tell you what they did!)
>==================================================
>Don Williams
>La Jolla, CA
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