From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 7 12: 1:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.www-service.de (smtp.www-service.de [212.77.161.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07B1115615 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 12:01:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Usselmann.M@icg-online.de) Received: (qmail 23058 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2000 20:01:28 -0000 Received: from dialin-31.mainz.okay.net (HELO icg?pc204) (194.117.240.31) by smtp.www-service.de with SMTP; 7 Jan 2000 20:01:28 -0000 From: "Manfred Usselmann" To: "Adam" , "Philip Jones" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 20:55:59 Reply-To: "Manfred Usselmann" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Standard (2.10.1999) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;5) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Unix vs Win98 Message-Id: <20000107200131.07B1115615@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 03:21:09 -0500 (EST), Adam wrote: >Straight and clear cut, the operating system you are looking for is >Microsoft Windows NT. > >On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Philip Jones wrote: > >>Hello, I'm just a "consumer/lay person" using Win98. >>I know that Win98 is just a "windows shell" over dos. >>Unix I hear is a very stable integral system. >>Do they make a "Windows" point & click Op. system, >>which can accept popular program CD's... i.e. MS Office, >>or Netscape, or WinFax Pro, Quicken? Quicken 2000 is Win95/98 _only_, not Win NT or Win 2000. At least this the case for the current German version of Quicken 2000. So maybe Windows NT isn't the solution either. >>Do they make a competitive Op. system for the consumer to use? >>Or should I look to IBM OS2, for these features? >>Or are there any other Op. systems which can perform like Win98, >>but with more stability? >>Thanks, Phil Jones >> -- Manfred Usselmann usselmann.m@icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- I C G Informationstechnologie Consulting GmbH Bahnstr. 7, D-65835 Liederbach / Ts. Tel. +49 69 333 623, Fax +49 69 306 845 -------------------------------------------------- http://www.icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message