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In article <1992Apr3.013247.2148@eff.org> hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs) writes:
>In article <1992Mar31.213207.12639@ultra.com> stcroix@ultra.com (Bill St. Croix) writes:
>>
>>In case you haven't heard....$99 to upgrade from Excel 3.0 to 4.0.  What
>>a great scam...get a good share of the market and then dollar your users
>>to death once a year.
>
>So you feel that they shouldn't make a good profit on their work in
>upgrading a product?
 
I think that charging $99 for an upgrade that is supposed to make the product
easier to use is ridiculous.  If you remember correctly, that was what Excel
3.0 was supposed to do.  Especially a little over ONE year after that
release.   

If you paid $200 for 2.2 and paid $129 for the 3.0 upgrade, now you need
to paid (maybe not "need") the $99 for the next upgrade...you've just
paid $430 for 4.0.  Yes, I know....you have used the product for "all
those years".  What about the Word upgrade.  If you were still using Word
1, you could upgrade to 5.0 for the SAME price as the upgrade from 4.0!
Is that *fair*??  I don't think so.  I have no problem with a company
making money off of the original product and upgrades, but charging 33-50%
of the original price once a year (or every other year) seems a bit
extreme.

I know a lot of companys and individuals that are not going to Word 5.0
as a company purchase due to the cost.  I think that the same thing will
happen with Excel.  I know my company is doing this considering that it 
will cost us upwards of 10k to upgrade or 80 Macs to Word 5.0....and another
8k or so in a few months for Excel.  Sure, it is a *cost of doing business*,
but when will it slow? 
 
>>My personal favorite is the *personalization* of the original floppies...
>>one of the WORST "features" anyone has ever implemented for any reason.
>
>You mean you actually _use_ the original floppies for installation??!?

No...I have to copy the original (INSTALLER disk ONLY) ever time a new
user gets a copy of Word 5.0.  I use the same 4 other back up disks for
the other installations.  Also, it is NEVER stated in the WORD 5.0 "Getting
Started" manual that one should backup ones disks!  Therefore *some* (NOTE
SOME) people think that they *have* to use the original disks!  It seems
obvious to me that Microsoft either forgot to include this in the manual,
thought *everyone* "knows" to make backups first, or they WANT the originals
personalized!

>            Shaking head in amazement...

After you stop shaking, just consider how many "non-techies" use the
original disks for installations or do the install just as the manual
reads!
 
	Bill

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