Like it or not Windows 3.1 was a ground breaker in business, as a techie at the time it was a challenge to get enough conventional memory at times, but Microsoft's marketing dept and indeed their programmers produced Office 4.2. The entire Office suite for the price of the competitor's single product and it worked under windows rather than DOS based.
Wordstar for example under Windows just emulated a DOS screen. Businesses jumped enmass. And as they did so their suppliers and competitors went with it. MS at the time were really really lucky to be the chosen one, but they were and it's no surprise that the "monopoly" ensued in the business world. At the time the entire home market had a share of the market that linux would be ashamed of.
I've seen this 3 times especially with 4-5 year old drives, Apple sometimes really doesn't know how to program for windows. It's relatively trivial to fix when you realise what's happened. Limewire and bearshare appear on almost every machine I've been asked to look at and have been so badly infected that most times it's a rebuild and the data is well sh1t filled....
As someone who has just been stung by a £10000 scam. Someone somehow persuaded my bank to to allow them to to do telephone banking on my account. He did not have my passport, driving licence or birth certificate. How the branch and the bank's fraud dept thought it wasn't possible
however 2 days ago the fraudster phoned the bank's phone line to see why he couldn't steal any more money.
All true BTW I never checked statements too closely you need to. Got about 7 grand back so far.
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Like it or not Windows 3.1 was a ground breaker in business, as a techie at the time it was a challenge to get enough conventional memory at times, but Microsoft's marketing dept and indeed their programmers produced Office 4.2. The entire Office suite for the price of the competitor's single product and it worked under windows rather than DOS based. Wordstar for example under Windows just emulated a DOS screen. Businesses jumped enmass. And as they did so their suppliers and competitors went with it. MS at the time were really really lucky to be the chosen one, but they were and it's no surprise that the "monopoly" ensued in the business world. At the time the entire home market had a share of the market that linux would be ashamed of.
I've seen this 3 times especially with 4-5 year old drives, Apple sometimes really doesn't know how to program for windows. It's relatively trivial to fix when you realise what's happened. Limewire and bearshare appear on almost every machine I've been asked to look at and have been so badly infected that most times it's a rebuild and the data is well sh1t filled....
As someone who has just been stung by a £10000 scam. Someone somehow persuaded my bank to to allow them to to do telephone banking on my account. He did not have my passport, driving licence or birth certificate. How the branch and the bank's fraud dept thought it wasn't possible however 2 days ago the fraudster phoned the bank's phone line to see why he couldn't steal any more money. All true BTW I never checked statements too closely you need to. Got about 7 grand back so far.