🚀 go-pugleaf

 It's Baaack:  WordStar For DOS version 7.0, with *yet another* new
user interface.  This one is supposedly CUA compatible.  Price is still
$495.

 Watcom's new C 9.0/386 supports OS/2 2.0 and Windows 3.1, runs as an
OS/2 WorkFrame/2 graphics app, has special optimizing for 486 processors
and is priced at $895.

 Windows 3.1 is here.  Tens of thousands of early purchasers got their
boxes via Federal Express on April 6.  A FedEx employee told me, "We
were glad when it was over.  Microsoft started shipping batches a couple
of weeks before, but we couldn't deliver any until the sixth.  We're an
overnight courier; we don't have any storage space.  For the last few
days people were turning sideways to get around the stacks in the
corridors."

  Windows 4.0 is being developed by an entirely different group, and
Microsoft is now referring to it publicly as Windows Cairo.  Why?
That's for them to know and us to find out, I guess.  PC Week claims
Cairo/4.0 will have "icons that can be acted on in more powerful ways
than current Windows icons" (?) an "object oriented file system" (oh,
really?) and special network filesystem support.  Delivery sometime in
1994.

 Get Real:  InfoWorld editor Stewart Alsop said in his March 16
editorial:
  "...given that [Windows] NT represents a completely up-to-date
version of [DEC] VMS..."
  Er... one of the principals behind the original VMS was David Cutler,
who has moved from DEC to manage Microsoft's Windows NT project.
Unfortunately, Windows NT isn't VMS in any size, shape, or color - it's
plain old OS/2 3.0, originally known as "portable OS/2", only with
Windows instead of Presentation Manager (which was originally Windows to
start with). Alsop must know this, and the column was too early for
April Fools.

 Quote of the Week:  "MAPI is designed to message-empower applications."
- Rick Segal of Microsoft, as quoted by InfoWorld.

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