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- From: finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 14:35:51 GMT
-
- >On Fri, 05 Apr 96 09:42:00 +0200, sm@mk2.maus.sauerland.de (Stefan
- >Mueller) wrote:
-
- >>Hallo David,
- >>
- >>[ MS Soft is cheap and good ]
- >>
- >>And with File Formats which change with every release and are not
- >>understood by the rest of the world, if you use the "special features".
- >>
- >>MS Soft is quite nice -- if you only use MS products.
-
- >They do? Tell me why I can directly load Word 7.0 files in Word 6.0,
- >then? Ditto with Excel 5 and 7. And of course, going down versions
- >(loading lower versions) isn't a problem. Word's file import features
- >are better than anything available on the Amiga.
-
- God, you are getting desperate. You make a point (usually wrong) about the
- amiga, when people correct you, you just move on to another (wrong) point.
-
- O.k, if the PC has such wonderful file formats, how come I can load PC files
- AND Amiga ones into my spreadsheet? They are using the same format, so how
- can one be better than the other?
-
-