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From: ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Microsoft EXCELL
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Date: Sun, 21-Apr-85 14:50:29 EST
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In the San Francisco Examiner on Sunday April 21st, columnist John
Dvorak reported that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates will announce a
Microsoft integrated package on May 2nd.  This package for the Mac will
be called EXEL.  Dvorak reports rumors that EXEL will be shipped in the
summer.  It apparently will be a spreadsheet program integrated with
CHART and some kind of database.  The spreadsheet will recalculate only
those cells that require change, and the Switcher will be incorporated
as part of the scheme.  Microsoft is saying that the package
is multifunctional, not integrated.

Dvorak also reports that there has been a very successful effort by
Microsoft to block information about this product from being released. 
He recounts an incident in which he wrote an article about the product
for a nation magazine, and had all references to EXCEL and Microsoft
taken out.  He refers to "an amazing willingness on the part of editors
to kowtow", and calls it "a low point in journalism ethics".  

Journalism?   I always thought that computer rags were put out by 
computer vendors' marketing departments.