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From: kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Support (or lack of)
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Date: 29 Aug 90 20:56:19 GMT
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In article <1990Aug27.113618.7851@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>
>Second, as to their products being "full of bugs in the first .0 release"...
>I have Windows 3.0, Word for Windows 1.0 and Excel 2.0 --- all first releases,
>and all remarkably bug-free.  Certainly more bug-free than, say, Lotus 1-2-3
>3.0, which crashes here regularly (we have re-installed 2.01 for those who
>don't want to take chances).

Just to be devil's advocate here, I have Lotus Manuscript 1.0, 2.0;
Lotus Agenda 1.0; Lotus Magellan 1.0, 2.0; Lotus Freelance 1., 2.0,
3.0; Lotus Graphwriter 1.0, 2.0 - all of which had very few bugs in
the .0 releases.  I'll admit that 123 has always been full of bugs in
just about every release but I do think that the Microsoft products
have had a lot more bugs in them than Lotus' products.

Just my $0.02 worth, but with oil prices the way they are who knows
what it will be worth in a few hours.

Kevin
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