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

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From: "Bill G. Riel"
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 15:58

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David Corn (dcorn@metronet.com) wrote:
: briel@branch.pfc.forestry.ca ("Bill G. Riel") wrote:

: >David Corn (dcorn@metronet.com) wrote:
: >
: >: The difference is usability.  Excel is easier to use, and so people
: >: will move to the new standard, like it or not.  
: >
: >And as an added bonus, Excel will automatically read your mind
: >when you accidentally enter the wrong number.  For example, using
: >Excel V. 5.0 for Windows, lets say that I mistakenly enter the number
: >1.40737488355328 into a cell.  I press Return and *poof* now, the
: >value in the cell is ... 0.64!  Amazing isn't it!
: >
: >Try the same test on Excel for the Mac and guess what - now the
: >value magically morphs to ... 1.28!

: You've found either a bug or an easter egg, depending on your
: perspective.  Enter 1.40737488355327, for example, and you get exactly
: that in the dialog box and in the spreadsheet. 

You can't be serious.  You would actually consider this an _easter egg_ ??
A spreadsheet that changes my input values??  This is a rediculous
(and potentially damaging) bug.  Period.  Only from MS.

: Nothing you said refuted my point.

Nope.  Didn't really intend to either.  Just wanted to point out one of
the joys of moving along to that "new standard"

Cheers,
--Bill

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Bill G. Riel                          Canadian Forest Service
briel@pfc.forestry.ca                 Victoria, BC
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