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1994-11-02
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From: IBM PSP Media Relations
10-25-94
Dear Customer:
Regarding the NY Times review of Warp in the Science section of
the Tuesday, October 25 paper; we feel it's important to let you
know that we spent considerable time addressing the concerns the
writer has with OS/2 Warp. Unfortunately, Steve Manes
fundamentally disagrees with our positioning of Warp as an
operating system, and thinks we should market it strictly as a
Windows utility, and therefore thinks we haven't done an adequate
job of "fixing" Windows.
We spent a significant amount of time with Manes, discussing his
issues:
* Warp does not include device drivers for an Epson color
printer and a NUMBER NINE video card that were just introduced.
Response: we have plans to support it by year end, issue was
simply timing of Epson's and NUMBER NINE'S announcement,
nothing technical.
* Windows under Warp is slow. Response: he used the Ziff
Davis benchmark designed for testing Windows 3.1
applications, not 32-bit operating systems. Ziff
acknowledges that it is not an adequate test for OS/2
performance.
* Warp adds layers of complexity to an already-cumbersome
Windows environment, and the Workplace Shell is too different
from Windows. Response: this is where he wants IBM to fix
Windows, and misses the point that we're trying to convert
Windows users with a better product.
Some background: Manes co-authored the book "Hard Drive" on
Gates. He doesn't particularly like any OS and has had occasion
to trash Windows, OS/2 and Apple's System 7.5.