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dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie) wrote:

>Sure. Microsoft plans it that way, and uses existing upgrades and new
>systems as a lever to force more upgrades, in business at least. So
>here I am, let's say I put Windows 95 on my system. Now, strangely
>enough, Word for Windows 3.1 is acting flakey (ok, flakier than
>normal). Since this is very important to my business working right,

I didn't notice any problems with the old Office.  Have you run Win95
and tried it?

>I'm going to pony up the $400 or whatever and get an Office 95
>upgrade. Great, it's working good....

It's $189.   Not half bad - plus you get Schedule Plus.  

>In a week or two, I send some docs out to the rest of the
>organization. Strangely enough, their Windows 3.1 programs can't seen
>to quite deal with the ones I produced in Windows 95. Now maybe 10-20
>people in a small office have to upgrade, both OS and apps. 

Word and Excel files are 100% compatible.  Powerpoint can save in the
old format.

Dave - -try- it.    

>You can see the kind of problems a business has getting out from under
>Microsoft's spell. 

Novell has Perfect Office out there, and Lotus has the Word Pro
package.