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Re: Q: DOSEMU/WINE & MS Office

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From: Christopher B. Browne
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <mitch.817913208@isr0954.urh.uiuc.edu>,
Jon Mitchell <mitch@isr0954.urh.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>cbbrown@io.org (Christopher B. Browne) writes:
>
>>*Note that the MS-Office that many of us have grown to know and despise
>>is now officially obsolescent as it is in the process of being replace 
>					^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Huh?  When I last checked, it's been out for months.

It will take a goodly amount of time for users of the "old MS Office" to 
migrate to "MS-Office-95."  It's gonna be quite a process...

>>by MS-Office-95, which runs only under Windows-95.  At this time, WINE
>
>Not quite true.. msoffice for win95 documents are openable on win311.  
>This means that yes, there are some features you don't get in 3.11 but 
>you should be able to use that office with this one perfectly.

MS-Office 95 does not run under Windows 3.1x; it only runs under
Windows 95.

If you read the label on the box, you can see that this is documented.
"System Requirements: ... Windows 95 ..."

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From: cbbrown@io.org (Christopher B. Browne)
Subject: Re: Q: DOSEMU/WINE & MS Office
Date: 1995/12/04
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