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Readers' Choice Awards (siteadm) Fri, 13 Jun

Congratulations

Posted by: kdenehy
Date posted: Sat Jun 14 6:53:35 PDT 1997

You finally got the results you wanted. I knew if you took your time and really thought it out, you'd come up with a way to guarantee a Windows NT victory.

By using telephone surveys, you ensured that everyone responded, not just those who really liked their OS of choice enough to go to the trouble of filling out and returning a written survey. In essence, probably 95% of your voters were basically apathetic, but "since you've already got me on the phone, OK, I guess Windows NT."

I wonder what percentage of those surveyed who chose NT had ever even used OS/2? Does InfoWorld even care? Were you really looking for the best products, or just the most-used products?

It takes a phenomenal product to inspire the kind of passion shown by OS/2 users. Regardless of the results of your "scientific" survey, I think OS/2 is the true winner.

Just for the record, I haven't used OS/2 since version 2.1 several years ago.

By the way, what genius decided to group hardware and software together in some of the categories? NT Workstation, Jaz drive, Thinkpad, and Pilot all in the client category? It's a good thing you didn't put Netscape Navigator in the client category, isn't it? Then it might look like you had a bunch of Netscape zealots as readers.


Re: (shifrbv) Sat, 14 Jun
Think About it... (minitmen) Sun, 15 Jun

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