[mdaniel]

I would have more sympathy for that if Windows 95 were just suddenly dropped out of the sky to some rock music, but my experience with MSDN is that they are quite liberal with access to beta versions so software vendors can test their products before the unwashed masses get it

And I say this as someone who remembers the binders full of CDROMs that arrived, so not just "download this iso" modern day conveniences

[drdec]

Let's say SimCity took advantage of this beta program and fixed their buggy software. Great!

Now how do you get that fixed software to every user who bought a SimCity CD or floppies? Remember, most of your users don't have a modem and there is no widespread internet infrastructure at the time of the Windows 95 release.

[rictic]

You're arguing who is truly at fault, but as a consumer with less sophistication than "MSDN Subscriber" who are you going to blame when Win95 doesn't run your favorite software?

[hulitu]

MSDN ? In windows 95 ?