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From: straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.143608.11829@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 14:36:08 GMT
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In article <1991Mar21.052502.15366@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> mcgredo@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Don McGregor) writes:
>In article <4173@ryn.mro4.dec.com> long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
>>
>  Has anybody else noticed that MS tends to write apps for the Mac first, 
>  and then release them for the PC some time later?  For example, powerPoint,
>  MS Word graphical, Excel, MS Mail...
>
>  Later they make the PC the primary development platform, and release new
>  features there first.

And this should make MS' Mac releases of this software more bug-free and
stable, right?  Just like MW Word 3.00 (oops, 3.01), and MS Word 4 (oops,
4.00D) and Excel 1.5 (bombs if not in the first 1MB of memory space), ...

I use MS products, but I am getting more and more fed up with them.
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Richard Straka                   |AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH-6K311
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