I wrote 'Nuke Redmond'

WP v5.1 was widely accepted as the "cat's meow" among DOS-based word processing software. WIth the release of 5.2, one could see the begining of the end, however, since Lotus and MS had both put considerably better suites out there. Since Lotus could do it and WP couldn't there was no reason to believe any foulplay on MS' part was at work. When Windows 3.1 came out I don't think MSOffice had been released yet. It was a VERY popular product, since it had Excel, Word6, Access2, and Powerpoint (the famous BS-Generator) incorporated in it. Works was not up to snuff yet, though it was commonly bundled with Windows in OEM machines. The sense I got was that WORKS was intended for home use and was donated gratis to LOTS of different school systems in an effort to entice them to give up the Mac, which was markedly easier to teach and for teachers to use. Apple even ran a program here in the Denver area that involved selling Mac's below cost to teachers and administrators. It didn't work over the long run, though I did see a number of PC's, typically 2 or 3 per school which were sitting unused except for a comm program to handle comms with the main admin building downtown. It really pointed up how uninformed teachers and administrators were about these two competing systems. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 6:16 PM Subject: Re: I wrote 'Nuke Redmond'