Al Ankers wrote:
>
> "Although HP is currently developing a solution that will work under Windows 95,
> there are no plans to provide a solution for using Winsock under Windows 3.1 or
> Windows NT. The Windows 95 solution will be available in Spring 1996."
>
> This means if you are running WFW 3.11 on the LAN you're @#$% out of luck! They
> have no plans to make it work on the network under winsock.dll which is how I
> access the HP3000 via Reflection/1. I don't find this a terribly wise decision,
> but then .......   They are expecting WFW and Windows NT to disappear like the
> HP3000. So much for business decisions made the osterich way.
 
Supporting NT should be easy if they are doing Win95 - but it does take
test resources to certify the NT version. Perhaps it will work on NT, but
be unsupported...
 
As I understand it, someone correct me, please, but Microsoft is done with
supporting Windows for Workgroups. Everything new is coming out 32 bit, so,
what else can HP do (now that is, earlier, it would have been a different
story).
 
But, HP really should add NT support, since those companies holding off
on using Win95, should have little complaint about NT 4.x (once the
necessary hardware is acquired, of course). Microsoft really makes money
for hardware manufactures.
 
I wonder how long it will take to get support for Winsock 2.0?
 
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