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From: isle@dartvax.UUCP (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word 3.0 - Or how I learned to love the bomb?
Message-ID: <6187@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-May-87 01:21:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.6187
Posted: Wed May 13 01:21:03 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 07:47:04 EDT
References: <6531@amdahl.amdahl.com> <876@eneevax.UUCP>
Reply-To: isle@dartvax.UUCP (Ken Hancock)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lines: 26
Keywords: Word3.0, beta-testing, et al
Summary: Come on, give them a break!

"Munch, munch," said the line-eater...

In article <6531@amdahl.amdahl.com> howard@amdahl.UUCP (The Toolmaster) writes:
>More Word3.0 horror stories....

I realize that Word 3.0 has a few bugs to say the least, but consider this.
The changes between 1.05 and 3.0 are immense.  There is no possible way
they could have beta-tested it and found all these bugs.  Given that there
are some which seem to be pretty obvious, but the majority that I have
read about seem pretty obscure and happen only when a selected series
of commands are used -- there is no way a beta-tester could go through
all the possible series of command.  Microsoft has been fairly good about
contacting people on the net so far and have been pushing to get the
new update out as soon as they can.  (Of course for business relations so
they don't lose more customers...)  So far, I've at least been happy with
what I've observed.  (And haven't encountered that many bugs...)

Don't bother flaming me...someone had to at least put in a good
word for Microsoft.  :)


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