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From: Adam Goldberg
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 03:55

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In <1991May15.015640.5894@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> unicorn@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Harry E Miller) writes:

>(A little side comment you can ignore)
>It seems strange that MS cannot produce products that are at least fairly
>bug-free. What do they do, ignore their beta users! Also even though I
>know that speed is not everything, it should at least mean something!
>They only MS products I find userfull is MS Word 5.0 and MS EXCEL (great
>product!!!). If there are any MS people out there then all I can say is:

>        GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!

>Sorry about that, but these guys really tick me off!!!

For whatever it's worth, MS-DOS 5.0, due out RSN has about 10,000,000,000,000
beta testers (ok, so I'm exaggerating, but only a little) and the reason 
(so little birdies tell me) is that they're actually fixing things the
beta testers are reporting...


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