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From: cox@bentley.UUCP (MH Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft C 5.1
Message-ID: <1087@bentley.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 15:52:27 GMT
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In article <935@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> singer@ll-xn.UUCP writes:
>
>I read Microcoft's product announcement for C 5.1 on Compuserve
>last night.  Does anyone know when it will really be or if it
>is available?  If so, is there a reasonable update policy from
>5.0?  Is there a list of corrected bugs?

I read in one of the trade magazines (InfoWorld, I think), that
the upgrade would be available either "in Apr" or "Apr 30" (can't
remember which).  I can't remember whether they mentioned anything
about up-grade policy, but my guess is that since MSC 5.0 turned
out to be so buggy and since 5.1 is supposed to ship only 5 months
after I _finally_ got my 5.0 up-grade, I'm hoping the up-grade
costs will be reasonable (<$75?).  Also, they have lost so much momentum
to Borland, that I don't think they can afford to have their up-grade
costs much higher than the cost of buying Turbo C :-).

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