Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: David Corn
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 02:06

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Summers@Ethyl-the-Frog.ARC.NASA.gov (David P. Summers) wrote:

>In article <444el3$4hs@feenix.metronet.com>, dcorn@metronet.com (David
>Corn) wrote:
>> Wonderful.  So when we need to use a professional SS on our Macs, what
>> do you suggest we do?  
>
>This is typical of why MS gets to put out mediocre junk.  Half of what
>Excel has is just a copy of what Wingz had before.  There are alternatives
>(for example Wingz) that are not only as good.  But aren't bloated and
>slow (I've read message from people in France where MS has put out ads
>appologizing for the latest version of Word and Excel).

The difference is usability.  Excel is easier to use, and so people
will move to the new standard, like it or not.  

MS has routinely apologized for the speed of the new Word (Excel isn't
that bad, just memory-hungry).  Haven't you read Bill G's column in
the New York Times(?) recently?  He's got a weekly in one of those
newspapers; it's a good read.  It's on the MS Technet CDROM.

>> ROTFL.  Sorry, but in the real (ie business) world, MS is king, and
>> the OS that has problems running it (ie MacOS) won't last long.
>
>The OS runs it just fine.  The problem is that the software is bloated
>and slow.  Heck, as far as I'm concerned even going from Excel 5
>to Excel 4 is an upgrade.

What do you do when you have 3000 PC users with the latest and
greatest Excel (which, amazingly, runs well, even on an old 486/50)
and 800 Mac users, with the old version?  

The Mac users are forced to upgrade - that's what happens.

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Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 02:06:51 GMT
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