Re: FullWrite

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#17847

From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1987 16:31

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>Though FullWrite may be wonderful and great and do all the things that 
>MicroSoft Word 3.0 & 3.01 should have done but didn't, it's not here.
>And not only that, but for almost 6 months running now they've been
>taking out 2 page spreads telling everyone "don't buy MicroSoft Word,
>'cause FullWrite is gonna be here REAL SOON NOW, and it will beat the pants
>off of Word."
>
>This is very very slimey.

Actually, to be devils advocate a bit, the fullwrite ads came out for about
two months the first time they thought they were going to be ready to ship,
went away, and are back again now that they think they're going to be ready
to ship again. I don't think that's slimy (if they'd done 8 months of
advertising straigh, though.... but they didn't). That is just believing in
a schedule that wasn't realistic.

chuq
Chuq Von Rospach	chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow -- John Pomfret (1667-1703)

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Subject: Re: FullWrite
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Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 12:31:46 EDT
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