8 May
2000
8 May
'00
1:46 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Pechter <pechter(a)pechter.dyndns.org>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: I wrote 'Nuke Redmond'
Actually, you can purchase Office2000 and WordPerfect 2000 and Lotus
Smartsuite Millenium -- the latter two under $120... Office is
considerably more retail -- unless you corporate license under discount.
Actually grey market versions of the later are under $25 each.
I know, I bought both to compare them with the Office used at work and
forced on me. I liked them (used SmartSuite96 at IBM for a while) and
WordPerfect is now purchased and running on my wife's Linux box.
I must be out of touch these days, since I'm not on the market for new OA
software. Are you sure those "grey-market" versions of the software are not
counterfeit? It's hard to tell the difference, except, perhaps, by the
price.
> I can't leave this one alone either.
>
> Dick
<snip>
I'm actually a WordStar 6 kind of guy, if I'm not using FrameMaker though.
I gave up on Wordstar with v5.5. (??) which I got back in '90 or so. Back
then, the practice was to dog MS as compared with the Mac.
Win 3.0 was already floating around, though I didn't have it myself. I
bought into Windows quite late, (late '91) though I didn't dislike it then.
There were problems but mainly because the software utilities, e.g.
Smartdrv, didn't work correctly in that incarnation.
Though I'd been a faithful Wordstar user since '79, I liked Word for Windows
v2.0 quite well. That came out about concurrently with Win3.1.
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