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In article <mwalker-060892101250@mwalker1.npd.provo.novell.com.> mwalker@novell.com (Mel Walker) writes:
>In article <1992Aug6.103307.3357@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>, Rudolf R.
>Sinkovics <sinkovics@wu-wien.ac.at> wrote:
>> 
>> wardw@CS.ColoState.EDU (william bradley ward)
>> 
>> There have been lots of complaints concerning Word 5.0 (for Macintosh)
>> features.
>> I think the real question is how Microsoft can manage to implement
>> features like cross-referencing/auto-table numbering/... in a Dos Version
>> (Word 5.0 for Dos, already some 2 years old has all these features) or
>> put them in Windows versions of this word-processing program (Winword 2.0
>> is almoust in any respect superior to what Word 5.0 for Macintosh offers
>> - apart from those things offered by the system) while neglecting the
>> Macintosh users.
>> 
>> I sometimes ask myself whether there is a common strategy behind all this.
>
>There is. Microsoft wants everybody to use Nisus. :-)
>

Hmmm.  Maybe something more sinister is afoot.  If Microsoft sells the same
software for both Mac and Windoze, and the Mac version is a *lot* slower,
a lot of people will assume that it's the hardware, not the software (after
all, it's the *same* software isn't it ;-).  After enough frustration, some 
of these poor dupes will sell their Mac, buy a PC clone, a copy of MS-DOS, 
Windoze, and Word for Windoze.  Certainly *sounds* like a Microsoft
strategy...

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David Good                                               good@gdwest.gd.com

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