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- From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Origins of IBM / Microsoft rift
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.203155.29130@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 20:31:55 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.154244.26401@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Jul23.073024.2366@unislc.uucp>
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- In article <1992Jul23.073024.2366@unislc.uucp> thayne@unislc.uucp (Thayne Forbes) writes:
- >
- >Wait a minute, when did he abandon the Mac? Also, the two big winders
- >apps are Word and Excel, both of which were ported FROM the Mac. I haven't
- >seen recent releases of either for the Mac, but I suspect that the winders
- >versions are currently more capable. If that is true, I will have to
- >conceed that they are not supporting the Mac as agressively as they used to.
- >On the other hand, Winders is kinda sucsessful these days, so you will
- >have to forgive him for changing his resource allocation to Winders.
- >
-
- I wonder what MS Word v5 (for Mac) was then. Ribbon menus and all that sort
- of stuff. Before WfW 2 aswell !!
-
- Excel: not much call for a spreadsheet so can't remember.
-
- Neil
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