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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HP 500 Deskjet Advice
Message-ID: <154@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 90 17:22:32 GMT
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goes@vx.acs.umn.edu writes:

>BTW, I called Microsoft to get an updated MS Word .PRD file for the
>DJ500.  The rep said they didn't have one, and had no plans to support
>it. Stupid Answer.  More evidence that Microsoft is abandoning vanilla
>DOS products for Windows apps (INMO).

	Don't be so impulsive in lambasting a generally responsive company
on the basis of a "stupid answer" offered by one of its representatives.
Given that the DJ 500 is a popular successor to a widely used printer, to
the extent that it requires an alternative .PRD to that used by the Deskjet
to take advantage of its additional functionality, I have no doubt Microsoft
will release one for its DOS products as well as its Windows products.