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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
- Subject: Re: WP for Windows or Word?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.054233.13324@sequent.com>
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- Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
- References: <0095F13C.2CF87560@srcvax.cem.msu.edu> <1992Aug15.065234.15497@news.nd.edu> <36889@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 05:42:33 GMT
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- In article <36889@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> velasco@cs.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) writes:
- >The business division at this University has a site license for
- >several hundred users. Usually, the man in charge of deciding what
- >software every one of his departments should use goes with the PC
- >Magazine Editor's Choice. WP for Windows was an exception. Even
- >though we have large site licenses for Windows Excel, he chose to stay
- >with WP for Windows as the division-wide word processor. The main
- >reasons were a good learning curve for previous users of WP and
- >excellent support. I'm not sure I would have made the same choice
- >because, generally, the reviews for WP Windows haven't been good and
- >it sure seemed like a fast port to windows when I first messed around
- >with it. I'm not sure if Microsoft Word can import WP files, but that
- >certainly would have also been a deciding factor since the division
- >has probably 100 or so gigabytes of WP files already.
- >
- >I think people who are used to WP for DOS and have lots of resources
- >invested in it have a much greater motivation for sticking with their
- >Windows product. People who are new to computers and are starting off
- >in Windows might want to go with a product that's more "Windowey".
- >They both seem to be very stong, flexible, stable products.
- >
- >--
- > ________________________________________________
- > <>___, / / | ... and he called out and said, "Gabriel, give |
- > /___/ __ / _ __ ' _ / | this man an understanding of the vision." |
- >/\__/\(_/\/__)\/ (_/_(/_/|_ |_______________________________________Dan_8:16_|
-
- It is obvious that your divison head did not do his/her homework on
- Word for Windows and WP for Windows before rendering judgement. If
- the reasons were actually the command sequences and the file
- formats, then they were excuses more than reasons. Microsoft took
- great pains to write W4W such that you could use the WP command
- keystrokes and provided a tutorial to ease the transition into W4W
- command sets. Also, they read and write WP format as well, so I
- fail to see where the justification was to stay with it.
-
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