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In article <860814210010.000009AF.ANJV.MA@UMass>, MCOHAN@UMass.BITNET (Michael Cohan, U of writes:
> I read in the 7/14 issue of InformationWEEK, and in another newspaper
> (I think it was Computerworld) that Microsoft has ported the Macintosh
> version of Microsoft Word to the Atari ST, and that Atari has signed
> a contract with Microsoft giving Atari exclusive world-wide marketing
> rights to the program.  The ST version is called Microsoft Write.
>    Does anyone out there know more about this deal? such as...
> 
> 1) Price

$129.95

> 2) Availability

Late Fall is a fair guess.  I have a beta 1 version now.

> 3) Implementation-- both the articles I read on Microsoft Write specifically
> said it was an ST version of the MACINTOSH Microsoft Word.  This means
> it uses windows, mouse etc.  I find it very hard to believe that Microsoft
> would be willing to start writing GEM programs!  Is there any chance that
> we can see WINDOWS on the ST??  If Microsoft is now supporting the ST,
> have they ported Windows to it to use with Write?  Or what are they using?

It does in fact run under GEM.
> 
> 4) Is Microsoft planning to put any other software on the ST besides Word?

If everyone buys this, I would expect to see lots of Microsoft programs for
the ST.  We'll see...
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