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From: dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Microsoft cuts corners, actually (they do!)
Message-ID: <11540168@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Aug 88 17:46:02 GMT
References: <429@rose3.rosemount.com>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> Wasn't Excel released for 128K machines?
Nope! Try the Macintosh Plus a 1 megabyte machine.
>Then the software DID last for 2 generations of hardware..... pretty
>good...
Nope, pretty bad, Apple's engineers had to keep adding patches to the SYSTEM
software to ensure that Microsofts code would run! Apparently someone finally
got tired of catering to their sloppy programming and stopped putting patches
in to allow Excel to reside in the first 1 meg of a multi meg machine and 
MicroSoft had to actually fix their code.

Virtually every Microsoft product for the Mac has been released with serious
bugs and this is since the 128k days and now it continues into the MacII 
timeframe. 

--David
MS-DOS, just say NO!