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From: gpsteffl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Glenn Patrick Steffler)
Subject: Re: Microsoft products
Message-ID: <1990Jun11.025335.19496@sunee.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Gerbels On Speed Inc.
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 90 02:53:35 GMT
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In article <1897@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>w-edwinh@microsoft.UUCP (Edwin HOOGERBEETS) writes:
>

Edwin preceeded this block below with a statement that Word For Windows for
the Amiga would require a large scale effort to port the other major MS
apps like Excel and Powerpoint (Ok, Edwin didn't mention powerpoint)...

>>But, businesses tend to buy more than one package: let's say the owner
>>now wants to automate his accounting with his nifty new Amiga, so he
>>goes out to buy some flashy Amiga spreadsheet... 
>
>>... but now MS has just lost a sale of Excel!
>

>Er, that doesn't wash Edwin. How did they lose a sale? Gee if you figure

They lost the sale because joseph shmazola (or jane shmazola :-) bought
Word For Windows for the Amiga and decided that Excel would be a useful
application.  Oops..now MS has to port yet another maga app to yet
another platform.  Blech...they don't need to do that because of the
very large base of capable machines which will soon/or are running
Windows..so Joe Shmo (short form...sorry joseph) has to either buy
some lousy Amiga spreadsheet or forgoe the aforementioned purchase.

If JS decided instead to buy either a Mac (not optimal) or a PC (still not
optimal) then he could buy both applications and have dynamic data exchange
transfer info between then (sounds a lot like AREXX, but is done at 
a higher level in Word/Excel allows for changes in one document to be
mirrored in another Excel-Word-PageMaker etc) for added utility.

>it like you do above, then Microsoft is losing thousands of sales on the
>Amiga right now, since they have no products out on the Amiga, and Amigans
>must buy competitive packages. They better hurry up and port their stuff

They aren't 'losing' a sale because nobody with an Amiga in their right
mind bought it for the Word processesing and spreadsheet (office automation)
tasks, rather for its video and sound multitasking capabilities.

>over to the Amiga right away, before they lose too many sales and have to
>file chapter 11!!

Chapter 11...Hey, congrats man, I didn't know you were so advanced.  Apparently
you are no longer reading Dick and Jane... :-)

You really are impressing me now...I like the double exclamation marks!! Nice touch.

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