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Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Tuesday, 27 Nov 1990 00:44:36 EST
From: Hubert Lai <LAIH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Message-ID: <90331.004436LAIH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Word Processor Selection
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References: <7445@uwm.edu> <1990Nov25.211633.11216@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>

In article <1990Nov25.211633.11216@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>,
jpl5@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Jay P Lessler) says:
>If you can wait until Spring, Word Perfect for windows is coming out then.
>
>With any luck, it'll have both a windows environment and a text-only
>environment for those of us who have WYSIWYG.

Ami Professional and Word for Windows are both available now.  Unless you
are a die-hard WordPerfect fan, I can't think of any compelling reasons to
wait for it.  Microsoft Word is available for the Macintosh, Windows, and
character-based DOS environments with substantially similar user interfaces.

Current versions on these three platforms are 4.0, 1.1, and 5.5.  Microsoft
Word for Presentation Manager will also share the same unser interface and
is scheduled to ship in a few weeks.

If you are willing to live with a different user interface, you also have
Microsoft Word for OS/2 and Word for Unix.  Both of these are character
based and are practically identical to Microsoft Word 5.0 for DOS.

<=- Hubert