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Happy Birthday Windows95
Washington Post ^
| Thursday, August 24, 1995
| David Segal
Posted on 08/24/2005 9:21:42 AM PDT by N3WBI3
With Windows 95's Debut, Microsoft Scales Heights of Hype
By David Segal Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 24, 1995; Page A14
You can hide under a bridge, row a boat to the middle of the ocean or wedge yourself under the sofa, cover your ears and then hum loudly. But get near a newspaper, radio, television or computer retailer today and you will experience the multimillion-dollar hype surrounding the launch of Windows 95.
Microsoft Corp. is spending about $300 million to trumpet the arrival of Windows 95, an upgraded operating system, the software that tells the machinery inside your personal computer what to do. Marketing mavens believe the all-out media blitz is the largest product advertising campaign ever. Print ads – from both Microsoft and increasingly giddy computer retailers – have been inescapable over the past few weeks.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; Technical
KEYWORDS: bob; dos; happybirthday; msdos; win311; windows95; winme
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Love it or hate it, it changed the world..
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:21:45 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
To: ShadowAce
2
posted on
08/24/2005 9:22:02 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: N3WBI3
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:23:36 AM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: N3WBI3
I think I'll reboot four times today just for old times sake.
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:23:41 AM PDT
by
steveo
(Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
To: N3WBI3
I was a beta tester for Win 95. For reformatting my hard drive about eight times I got a copy of the final product and. . . . a t-shirt. Gates is such a humanitarian on stuff like that.
Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:24:14 AM PDT
by
Mike Bates
(Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
To: All
Yah. I remember installing that... and re-installing... and re-installing... and re-installing... because it kept freezing during installation.
Until we removed the mouse.
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:26:16 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity || Iran Azadi)
To: N3WBI3
Unnngh.
To: N3WBI3
Did they ever figure out that one of the key lines in the song "Start Me Up" that they used to promote this was:
You make a grown man cry"?
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:27:41 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: N3WBI3
Happy Birthday to an operating system that has officially been killed by it's corporate parents. Get on that upgrade train.
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:28:26 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Now that taglines are cool, I refuse to have one.)
To: N3WBI3
Nowadays, it's been replaced by
WindowsRG. Check out the free demo...
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:29:16 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:30:10 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Mike Bates
Thanks to it, I developed Tennis Elbow from playing Castle Wolfenstein and Doom.
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:30:21 AM PDT
by
Wooly
To: N3WBI3
Windows 3.11 worked perfect. I thought Windows 95 would work equally well or better.
It ended up selling me on the Macintosh. Sometimes I get the same feeling now when I wrestle with Mac OS X remembering how well system 8 and 9 worked.
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:30:33 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: steveo
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:31:36 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Can a Book establish a moral code, just because a bright-eyed attention-seeker does good deeds?)
To: steveo
I think I'll reboot four times today just for old times sake. LOL--thanks for the laugh!
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:33:29 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: Izzy Dunne
To: avg_freeper
During the early part of development for Win95, one could run multiple virtual machines of WFW.
Win95 was a great O/S. Unfortunately, it had to deal with crap hardware like "Changs Number One Video Card" and "Joes Super Rodent" mouse.
Kinda like today.
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:36:06 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(When a Jihadist dies, an angel gets its wings)
To: avg_freeper
I'm still running some 3.11 workstations off an NT server. It's been running, but for occasional power interruptions, since 1994. Never a forced reboot. Never had to reload anything except the fix for Y2K. If I ever have to replace any of the 500 meg drives, that could be a problem though.
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:39:04 AM PDT
by
kylaka
To: Oztrich Boy
LOL. Me too. I thought I was alone. And on a 1996-vintage Dell P200 that refuses to die.
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posted on
08/24/2005 9:43:58 AM PDT
by
cll
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