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Article #7933Re: ATM
From: Steve Dorner
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1989 21:48
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1989 21:48
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In article <2067@network.ucsd.edu> dpaight@weber.UUCP (Dan Paight) writes:
>Somehow, this doesn't make me feel any better about the advertising
>people at Adobe (or whomever Adobe contracted with). No matter whose
>fault it is, the incompatability problems with such popular programs
>as MS Word ought to be made clear in the small print.
"I think it would be more appropriate if the [MS Word] box bore a big red
label, warning:"
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| 1. This product IGNORES user interface guidelines. |
| 2. This product IGNORES Apple programming guidelines. |
| 3. This product is, in short, a PAIN in the POSTERIOR. |
| [4. This product contains LARK'S VOMIT.] |
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It's a shame MS Word was the only game in town for so long. It stinks.
How many new products/features have caused problems with Word, because
Microsoft "did it their way"?
I think "whose fault it is" matters a great deal. (I admit I might feel
differently if I were saddled with MS Word; thankfully, I'm not.)
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner
IfUMust: (217) 244-1765
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!yunexus!ists!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: ATM Message-ID: <1989Nov17.214848.16720@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 17 Nov 89 21:48:48 GMT Article-I.D.: ux1.1989Nov17.214848.16720 References: <5907@shlump.nac.dec.com> <2046@network.ucsd.edu> <1432@adobe.UUCP> <2061@network.ucsd.edu> <1442@adobe.UUCP> <2062@network.ucsd.edu> <1450@adobe.UUCP> <2067@network.ucsd.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 26