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NEW OS/2 UTILITY: IBM's Just Add OS/2 Warp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (goyal@utdallas.edu)
Wed Nov 1 21:17:37 1995
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 23:50:09 GMT
From: goyal@utdallas.edu
Reply-To: goyal@utdallas.edu
Submitted by: Mohit Goyal (goyal@utdallas.edu)
Source: IBM press release
Date received: 1995 November 1
Date posted: 1995 November 1
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Just Add OS/2 Warp
IBM offers treat for those who feel tricked by Windows 95
AUSTIN, Texas, October 31, 1995...IBM today announced the availability of
Just Add OS/2* Warp, a free package of software utilities to help users
deinstall Windows 95 and then load OS/2 Warp, or install OS/2 Warp alongside
Windows** 95. Just Add OS/2 Warp introduces computer users to the options
they have for upgrading to a 32-bit operating system, shows them how OS/2 Warp
and Windows 95 can coexist, and analyzes their hardware to ensure that it's
ready to upgrade to OS/2 Warp. Highlighting some of the many advantages of
OS/2 Warp over Windows 95, the utility's Upgrade Advisor allows users of any
operating system, including Windows 95, PC DOS, MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, and
versions of OS/2, a quick and easy look at whether their system is ready to
upgrade.
"Few things are as frustrating as finding that a product's promised
plug-and-play features don't really work on your PC and then watching your
long distance calls to tech support run up while your new software won't run
at all," said Dan Lautenbach, vice president, IBM Personal Software Products.
"The bottom line is that millions of people may have been duped into trying to
use something that doesn't deliver its advertised features. Scary, but true.
Just Add OS/2 Warp provides a means to rescue those unhappy Windows 95
customers."
Upgrade Advisor
Just Add OS/2 Warp's Upgrade Advisor automatically checks the user's
PC to determine if it is ready to upgrade to OS/2 Warp. The Advisor shows
whether the PC has enough memory, processor power and hard disk space, so that
the user can move on to the upgrade with confidence. The Advisor allows users
to see whether their devices are supported by OS/2 Warp and where to obtain
device drivers if they are not. It also will suggest hardware upgrades that
can make the PC ready for OS/2 Warp. All of the information gathered by the
Advisor remains on the user's computer and is not forwarded off-site.
"Today's OS/2 Warp offers battle-tested features that have been available for
three years," Lautenbach said. "Just Add OS/2 Warp offers users easy access
to a level of operating system that Windows 95 can only hope to become in the
future."
What Microsoft Didn't Tell You
Recent buyers of personal computers, who thought they had to accept their
machines preloaded with Windows 95, now have a choice. With Just Add OS/2
Warp, users can quickly review the easy migration scenarios, such as
installation of OS/2 Warp over Windows 95 or Windows 3.1, even Windows 95 over
OS/2 Warp. The OS/2 Warp and Windows systems can coexist and users do not
need to delete OS/2 to try Windows 95 (although that is what Windows 95
documentation instructs users to do).
Just Add OS/2 Warp also explains how to dual boot OS/2 Warp and Windows 95.
The utility teaches users a dual boot shortcut and introduces them to a new
feature of OS/2 Warp that shows Windows 95 long file names from OS/2 Warp.
Both the Dual Boot and Long File Name Utility can be installed directly from
Just Add OS/2 Warp onto the user's PC.
The utility comes with a set of instructions for how to uninstall Windows
95. The instructions help users remove Windows 95 from their systems while
preserving their work.
OS/2 Warp Information/Cool OS/2 Warp Stuff
Other features offered in Just Add OS/2 Warp include answers to frequently
asked questions about OS/2 Warp and Warp Connect. A section about OS/2 treats
is loaded with useful tips developed and perfected by an OS/2 users group from
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. An index to the Internet web sites and Bulletin
Board systems that feature OS/2 Warp discussion, programs and information is
included. Both home and enterprise users can see what OS/2 Warp and OS/2 Warp
Connect offer by cruising through the quick demo found in Just Add OS/2 Warp.
Just Add OS/2 Warp is offered through IBM Info at 1-800-IBM-3333, extension
EA010, and will be available at IBM's booth at COMDEX/Fall 1995, in Las Vegas,
Nov. 13-17. Just Add OS/2 Warp also can be downloaded after November 6 from
the Just Add OS/2 Warp home page on the World Wide Web at:
http://www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/drk95.html
IBM is also planning an on-line advertising campaign, debuting in late November
at selected home pages on the World Wide Web.
There are nearly ten million users of OS/2 worldwide. Four million
copies of OS/2 Warp have been sold since November 1994. OS/2 Warp has won 23
industry awards, including editors choice awards, user awards and technical
awards. In 1995, more than 125 software developers have announced plans to
offer new native OS/2 applications, adding to the 2,500 OS/2 applications
already on the market.
