{"id":44373,"date":"2015-03-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2015\/03\/27\/flaw-reported-in-windows-95\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:14:07","slug":"20150327-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20150327-00\/?p=44373","title":{"rendered":"Flaw reported in Windows 95"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my colleagues ran across this old news clipping from 20 years ago today. <\/p>\n

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Flaw reported in Windows 95<\/b> <\/p>\n

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/font> <\/p>\n

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Microsoft Corp.’s long-awaited Windows 95 operating system has a flaw that can freeze up computers when running certain applications, InfoWorld magazine said Friday. <\/p>\n

The company is aware of the problem but is shipping 450,000 anyway as part of a preview program, the magazine said. <\/p>\n

“I fear that unless Microsoft goes back to the drawing board on this operating system, only light users will get anything out of it,” said Nicholas Petreley, the magazine’s executive editor. <\/p>\n

He said the system’s inability to handle several types of sophisticated applications at the same time made it questionable for business use. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I can’t find a copy of the original InfoWorld article online; all I can find are citations to it, like this one<\/a> and this one<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The clipping had a handwritten note attached: <\/p>\n

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Bob, <\/div>\n
You guys may want to respond to this. <\/div>\n
Mom <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The report was shortly followed by a rebuttal from Windows Magazine<\/a>, pointing out that this was a beta release, it is not unusual that an unfinished product has bugs, and that a similar bug in an earlier beta was fixed within two weeks. <\/p>\n

ZOMG! A beta product has a bug! <\/p>\n

I found it cute that my colleague’s mother chose to bring this article to her son’s attention. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And a note from Mom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-44373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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