Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!eos!shelby!portia.stanford.edu!jessica.stanford.edu!aaron From: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: SDK for Windows 3.0 Message-ID: <1990Jun29.182514.28901@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 29 Jun 90 18:25:14 GMT References: <90@ <118500030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <112095@linus.mitre.org> Sender: Aaron Wallace Organization: Academic Information Resources, Stanford University Lines: 23 In article <112095@linus.mitre.org> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes: >In a recent article mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >> >>Ah! the cat's out. I was not really waiting for the SDK 3.0, I was waiting for >>the promised cuopon to fill out to order the SDK whenever it was ready. Well, >>so I called up Microsoft again and asked what happened to the cuopon. They >>told me that if I could read them the document number or some such thing from >>the manual, and give a VISA etc for the $150 upgrade price, they would take >>the order right then! He looks up the inventory, says there's enough stock, >>and boom! I should be getting it in a few days, its actually shipping! > >Verrrry interesting. I called uSoft yesterday and was told flatly that >the product was not in ship status and would not be until sometime in July. >(They did confirm the $150 figure, however). What part of uSoft did you >call, and do you have a warm-body name of someone there I can cite? > Well, all I can say is that we have a copy (release) of the 3.0 SDK, so it does exist. It's in a box like Excel or Word--surprising since I remember the 2.0 SDK being quite large. Is it worth $300+? I'm not going to start that one up again :-)... Aaron Wallace