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Article #31481Re: Re: Microsoft cuts corners, actually (they do!)
From: David Williams
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1988 17:46
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1988 17:46
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> Wasn't Excel released for 128K machines? Nope! Try the Macintosh Plus a 1 megabyte machine. >Then the software DID last for 2 generations of hardware..... pretty >good... Nope, pretty bad, Apple's engineers had to keep adding patches to the SYSTEM software to ensure that Microsofts code would run! Apparently someone finally got tired of catering to their sloppy programming and stopped putting patches in to allow Excel to reside in the first 1 meg of a multi meg machine and MicroSoft had to actually fix their code. Virtually every Microsoft product for the Mac has been released with serious bugs and this is since the 128k days and now it continues into the MacII timeframe. --David MS-DOS, just say NO!
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