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rk39+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Joseph Kuszewski) writes:



>According to this week's issue of InfoWorld, Norton Utilities for the
>Macintosh will NEVER be released.  It was scheduled for release this
>summer, but will never find it's way to shelves because SYMANTEC bought
>out Norton Utilities corp.  The article went on to say that the "best
>features" of Norton Utils for the Mac will be integrated into the next
>release of SUM. 

This is completely wrong.  The product will be shipped just as soon as all of
show-stopper bugs have been removed.  The last month and a half of testing
and compatibility rewrites were mostly caused by compatibility with other
products (Note: there is a company in southern Washington state that has
caused much of this.)  I can't put words in their mouths, but it will be
in the next month unless something REALLY severe is discovered.

The product is extremely thorough-going and most professional.  It will sell
to anyone with even the slightest interest in any of the fuctionality provided.
It is easy to use and well thought out.


>PS:  It might amuse you to know that the new version of Norton Utilities
>for the PC has been delayed because SYMANTEC marketing didn't like the
>way the package looked.   ... And people wonder why I don't like
>SYMANTEC...

If people who had no information to provide, but were merely making up
factoids, were barred from Usenet, the net would have about 1% the bandwidth
of today.  This is one of the factoids that would be removed.

	Alex

Source: discussions with 15 Norton employees, and constant beta-testing.
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