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Article #1210Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
From: John Martin
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:11
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:11
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In article <92240.124636REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU writes: > > Among the dozens of other excellent reasons given, who could love a >company that has monopolized the PC world with trash and whose only >decent program is Word (for the Macintosh!!!). Finally, Word for Windows >2 is a decent port of Word Mac - but it runs under windows, which is Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Word written originally for DOS, then ported to the Mac -- in which case is the Wonders (ahem... Windows) version really a port from DOS?? And from what I have heard from people fluent in both Word and WordPerfect, WP is the better of the two (I wouldn't know firsthand, so don't flame me! Please!!) -- John Martin johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97402
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!nntp.uoregon.edu!cajal.uoregon.edu!johnm From: johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu (John Martin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft? Keywords: n Message-ID: <1992Aug27.221152.2372@nntp.uoregon.edu> Date: 27 Aug 92 22:11:52 GMT References: <1992Aug26.133221.25721@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Aug27.114422.19944@actrix.gen.nz> <92240.124636REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Sender: news@nntp.uoregon.edu Organization: Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon Lines: 18