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Why switch from DOS to Windows?
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[email protected] (Tony Minkoff) writes:
> Just a couple of years ago, I was working for a commercial software company
> that produced a DOS product. We wanted to migrate our DOS users to our
> Windows product. So we took a survery of our DOS users. (I don't have
> the numbers; I heard about it from the VP of development, and he didn't
> provide exact numbers.)
>
> First, we asked if they had Windows installed on their systems. Most of
> them said "Yes."
>
> Then, of those who said "Yes" to the first questions, we asked if they
> ever used Windows. Again, most of them said yes.
>
> Then, we asked what they used Windows for. The top three answers, in
> order, and I kid you not, were: 1) Solitaire, 2) Minesweeper, and 3)
> running multiple DOS apps concurrently. That was all that most of our
> users did with Windows. (Hey, so we had some backwards users-- what
> do you expect from users buying a DOS app?)
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