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- From: mann@ipacific.net.au (Angus Mann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Can Final Writer do tables?
- Date: 12 Feb 96 18:14:16 +1100
- Organization: Intercom Pacific Pty Ltd, Australia, +612 281-1111
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- >Thank you for asking. Actually, there are more details on Final Writer 5
- >regarding its new features that I could give; but I think it is best to
- >await official announcement of versions until they are close to actual
- >release.
-
- Damn, I just love vapour-ware :)
-
- >I suppose you could say that since I have mentioned a few features that we
- >are getting close. Who knows, perhaps we will ship FW5 before you ship
- >WW5. If you live up to your usual 6 month lead time between announcement
- >and release, we will. Weren't you supposed to ship in January? Unless I
- >missed something, it is February. I am surprised you found it necessary
- >to announce WW5 in November and still have not actually released it. What
- >was the purpose of doing that?
-
- Probably one of those strange marketing ideas - tell 'em about a great, new
- up-and-coming product and people will wait for that rather than buy the
- competitors'....
-
- >As far as when FW5 will be released, it will be released once we have
- >completely tested it and ensured there are no crash and burns. We don't
- >charge for tech support, and I prefer not tying up our phone lines with
- >unhappy users. I assure you that once we announce FW5 we will live up to
- >our announcement.
-
- Don't charge for tech support? Yeah, I've noticed you guys actually help
- people with questions in here, rather than simply posts responses which knock
- the competition. How can you live with yourselves? :)
-
- >Catch up with Wordworth 5? No thanks. Aren't you getting things a little
- >mixed up? Isn't WW5 now just adding ARexx, paragraph styles, and
- >background printing? FW has had ARexx, paragraph styles, and background
- >printing from day one. No, we are not attempting to "catch up" to
- >WW5--sorry.
-
- Hear, hear. FW is, IMHO I fantastic product, and whilst Digita may believe
- their product to be better, they're certainly entitled to their opinion that
- it is a fine product, but criticising the competition (with little basis)
- doesn't say much for their attitude. As for them not getting their facts
- straight, it certainly doesn't say much for their dedication to the Amiga
- WP/DTP market...
-
- >leave FW5 for dead. I keep that in the back of my mind every morning at
- >5:00 AM when I look for motivation to drag myself out of bed, go to work,
- >and prepare FW5. Thank you for the extra incentive! Perhaps I will list
- >"Mark from Digita" in a special "Thank You" section in our manual.
-
- <laugh> I'd pay to see that :)
-
- >Mark, I am looking forward to installing WW5. I am even more excited
- >about running it. I just hope it doesn't trash my hard drive like WW3.0
- >did during its installation.
-
- Nah that was a special feature of the installer - gave you added experience in
- attempting to recover your drive and re-install everything. Either that or it
- detected FW on the drive and thought it'd play a nice little joke on you? :)
-
- Angus Mann, mann@ipacific.net.au
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