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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ATM
Message-ID: <1989Nov17.214848.16720@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 89 21:48:48 GMT
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In article <2067@network.ucsd.edu> dpaight@weber.UUCP (Dan Paight) writes:
>Somehow, this doesn't make me feel any better about the advertising
>people at Adobe (or whomever Adobe contracted with). No matter whose
>fault it is, the incompatability problems with such popular programs
>as MS Word ought to be made clear in the small print. 

"I think it would be more appropriate if the [MS Word] box bore a big red
label, warning:"

|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|	1. This product IGNORES user interface guidelines.		|
|	2. This product IGNORES Apple programming guidelines.		|
|	3. This product is, in short, a PAIN in the POSTERIOR.		|
|	[4. This product contains LARK'S VOMIT.]			|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|

It's a shame MS Word was the only game in town for so long.  It stinks.
How many new products/features have caused problems with Word, because
Microsoft "did it their way"?

I think "whose fault it is" matters a great deal.  (I admit I might feel
differently if I were saddled with MS Word; thankfully, I'm not.)
-- 
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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