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From: homerun@portia.Stanford.EDU (Matt Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Word for Windows, IBM DOS 4.0 (1)
Summary: They both exist
Keywords: dos, word, windows
Message-ID: <7592@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 Dec 89 19:22:03 GMT
Sender: Matt Watson <homerun@Portia.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: homerun@portia.Stanford.EDU (Matt Watson)
Organization: Stanford University
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Microsoft put Word for Windows in production November 27, and it should be
shipping now.  I got to play with one of the first releases of it and it
is quite amazing.  While it is visually similar to the Macintosh version,
it has some great enhancements, such as a thesaurus/dictionary (with
definitions & usage) and full keyboard control if you choose not to use
the mouse (as with all windows apps).  You can paste in graphics from
other apps, scale and clip them.  It's *very* fast too -- compared to the
only other word processors for windows I know of, Ami and Ami Pro.

IBM doesn't call it's upgrade to DOS 4.0 version 4.01.  They felt it wasn't
even that much of an upgrade.  The actual DOS disks say 4.01 in very small
print, but the ver command only elicits a version 4.00.  If your command.com
file is 6/17/88 or newer, you have the updated version.

matt.