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- From: Paul Chan <paul>
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- Subject: Re: FW 5
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 16:49:49 GMT
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- David Jarvis <djarvis@u.washington.edu> wrote:
- >On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Paul Chan wrote:
- >
- >> jpeacock@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Jason Peacock) wrote:
- >>
- >> At the moment, I think the move to "give away" FW5 to PC users is interesting.
- >
- >I wonder if the reason they are doing it is to capitalize on the Netscape
- >strategy. If you can't outsell them (advertising costs, etc.), then take
- >your share of the market by GIVING away the product. Businesses, and
- >anyone who is a serious user will want to upgrade both for the product
- >support (a big plus for bisinesses who depend on reliability) andthe
- >extra features.
-
- Sound good to me, but remember that FW certainly isn`t the first wordprocessor
- or the "best" wordprocessor in the PC market by a long chalk. This is something
- that Netscape could boast from the beginning as a Web Browswer.
-
- >
- >> It`s certainly good to propagate the FW program across the PC sphere of use but
- >> I must question the usefulness of doing this as nearly every PC sold will at
- >> least have a version of MS Works for Windows or similar. Why should people
- >> change over, especially when many of them will have a copy (legit or
- >> not) of MS Word anyway?
- >
- >MS Works pretty well stinks for doing anything other than writing a quick
- >note. I think it's main value is to get people using the programs, and
- >then buy functional tools. The onadvantage MS Works has, in my
- >opinion, is that multiple import/export formats supported, and "Write"
- >makes a good documentation format standard.
-
- MS Works might "stink" but a lot of people have it. Agreed with the
- import/export thing though. FW could be really great if it had a few reliable
- and accurate import/export features.
-
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