WINDOWS CHICAGO

Whether or not Windows Chicago is truly better than the IBM and Apple competition operating systems may be a moot point if there are over 40 million Windows users that have installed or soon will install Windows Chicago. Market share determines the number of native software applications being developed for operating systems. Mac, UNIX, and other operating systems are losing the native software development war to Windows Chicago and Windows 2000. Windows Chicago is almost certain to become the PC operating system standard of choice until its upgrade called Windows Cairo rolls off the line and/or Windows 2000 with upgraded object-oriented programming features become the operating systems of choice among users having newer hardware speed and memory components. In answer to the question of whether Windows 95 (Chicago) will be a flop, Bott (1994) , p. 139 contended: "You might as well put your money on Wile Coyote to finally catch Roadrunner." (See also Native , Windows , Windows Cairo , OS/2 and Windows 2000 )