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From: MCOHAN@UMass.BITNET (Michael Cohan, U of Mass/Amherst)
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Subject: "Microsoft supports the ST
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Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 21:00:10 EDT
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I read in the 7/14 issue of InformationWEEK, and in another newspaper
(I think it was Computerworld) that Microsoft has ported the Macintosh
version of Microsoft Word to the Atari ST, and that Atari has signed
a contract with Microsoft giving Atari exclusive world-wide marketing
rights to the program.  The ST version is called Microsoft Write.
   Does anyone out there know more about this deal? such as...

1) Price

2) Availability--  Previous Atari-distributed/written ST software seems
to have disappeared into a black hole!  (Planetarium, CP/M Emulator,
GEM Draw,graph,paint etc., Joust, etc.)  If Atari is distributing this,
I sure hope they actually DO distribute it!  Any info?

3) Implementation-- both the articles I read on Microsoft Write specifically
said it was an ST version of the MACINTOSH Microsoft Word.  This means
it uses windows, mouse etc.  I find it very hard to believe that Microsoft
would be willing to start writing GEM programs!  Is there any chance that
we can see WINDOWS on the ST??  If Microsoft is now supporting the ST,
have they ported Windows to it to use with Write?  Or what are they using?

4) Is Microsoft planning to put any other software on the ST besides Word?