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- From: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu (RICHARD HOFFBECK)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:57:00 GMT
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- In article <C08yMJ.9xr@csulb.edu>, sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
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- > In this vein, an interesting comment appeared in the new Windows Sources
- > magazine on P. 192 (lower box) within a review of Windows for Workgroups,
- > commenting on the MAPI standard that WFWG uses.
- >
- > Quoted without permission:
- >
- > "An interesting aside to all of this is how shocked we were to find that
- > Excel 4.0 was a MAPI-compliant application. Excel was released around the same
- > time as Windows 3.0, and several months before Mail 3.0. What this says for
- > Microsoft's so-called Chinese wall between divisions is anybody's guess.
- > But we wouldn't be surprised if the FTC took interest in this latest example
- > of intercommunication between systems and applications divisions at Microsoft."
- >
- > Personally, I don't recall Excel 4.0 as being THAT old (back to Win 3.0).
- > Does anyone remember the exact release date and when the MAPI standard was
- > first publicly proposed/released ?
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- I thought it was October '91 or thereabouts.
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