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From: jfmjfm@caen.engin.umich.edu (John Mansfield)
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Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0 freezing -- HELP!!
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Date: 9 Oct 90 13:03:26 GMT
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Various people have been complaining that Word 4.0 does weird things.
Well there are 2 upgrades to 4.0, namely 4.0a and 4.0b.  However
Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, choose not to make this generally
known.  The  fixes were supposedly for the new machines (when the
postable and IIci came out), but you might find there were other fixes
too.  I had very bad problems with my ci and complained on the net. I
was contacted by one of the Microsoft managers who forwarded me the
upgrade I needed.  This was very useful since they upgrade that was
sent from Microsoft Customer Service 
was 4.0a, even tho' I had requested 4.0b as I had
heard that this was the correct version for a ci with multiple
monitors.
Those of you using unusual hardware configurations (ie non-Apple
upgrades) should remember that the development at Microsoft is done on
Compaq PCs and cross compiled for the 680X0 machines.  I suspect that,
while they may have had a significant number of beta testers with
various configurations of hardware, they could not cover all bases and
therefore some problems may yet be unidentified.  

Actually if you think about it Microsoft probably cannot say there is
anything wrong with ANY version of 4.0 as it is BUG free, Bill said
so.  :-) :-)