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Article #941Re: Microsoft Word 5.0 SUCKS!!!! sort of.
From: Jolyon Silversmith
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 21:44
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 21:44
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In article <BsFC7o.6Ms@news.cso.uiuc.edu> aad35939@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A A DeGuzman ) writes: >wardw@CS.ColoState.EDU (william bradley ward) writes: > >[stuff deleted about how much CPU time Word 5.0 takes, etc.] > >>Anybody else notice this? It really pisses me off! Too bad Microsoft puts >>out otherwise half-way decent software. :) > >>Brad > >Why use Word 5.0 if you don't like it? If you don't like the way Microsoft >programmers write their code, buy a different product. No one is forcing you >to use Word. > >Isn't capitalism great? It's been said before - I'll say it again. Not everyone has a choice. In the business world, or even on college campuses, it may be next to impossible to shirk the standard. If you only use your own Mac and never share, fine. But Nisus isn't exactly common (or MacWrite II or Taste or whatever) if you do otherwise. -- Jolyon A. Silversmith __________________________________________________________ silvers3@husc.harvard.edu "At the end of history lies Summer Address: 260 New Mark the undiscovered country." Rockville, MD 20850 ____________________________________________________________
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!convex!darwin.sura.net!mips!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!bionet!uwm.edu!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!husc-news.harvard.edu!husc10.harvard.edu!silvers3 From: silvers3@husc10.harvard.edu (Jolyon Silversmith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Microsoft Word 5.0 SUCKS!!!! sort of. Keywords: process power Message-ID: <1992Aug3.174419.14403@husc3.harvard.edu> Date: 3 Aug 92 21:44:18 GMT References: <Aug02.052754.34792@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <BsFC7o.6Ms@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.misc Organization: Harvard University Science Center Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: husc10.harvard.edu