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- From: larryd@milton.u.washington.edu (Larry Desoto)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
- Message-ID: <larryd.715019516@milton>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 16:31:56 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.133221.25721@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Aug27.114422.19944@actrix.gen.nz> <92240.124636REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> <1992Aug27.221152.2372@nntp.uoregon.edu> <92240.163453ROYBAL@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
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- ROYBAL@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
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- >Hmm... My wife uses WordPerfect, and prefers it to / was unimpressed by
- >MicroLimp Werd 4 Windoze. I use the MS product, 'cause it's free; my group
- >leader bought it, along with Excel and Windows, under the assumption that
- >"they were all written by the same company, so they should all work fine
- >together, right?" -- but that's another tale of sorrow and shame...
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- Yeah, charts made by excel and imported into Word are 1) not the same
- size if printed directly, 2) not in the same place if printed directly.
- Yuck, hiss...
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