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From: holland@mips.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac games [Was: Crystal Quest]
Message-ID: <57946@ti-csl.CSNET>
Date: 4 Sep 88 00:24:24 GMT
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Reply-To: holland@mips.UUCP (Fred Hollander)
Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas
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>>  Microsoft has indicated that they don't intend to update Flight Simulator
>>  for the II/SE. (They lied -- at one time they had said that they would
>>  update ALL their programs to work on the II/SE)
>>
>
>Hmm, I'd really like to know your source of information.  I have never seen a
>press release to indicate that Microsoft had no intention of releasing an
>upgrade to Flight Simulator.  I'd really appreciate knowing where you found
>out this information.  Or is this another case of vendor bashing?

Here's a quote from MacWorld, April 1988:  "We want to bring that product
[Flight Simulator] up to date with the capabilities of the Mac, but it's not
mainstream business for us" - Bill Gates.  It doesn't say they won't upgrade,
just that it's not high on their priorities.

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
holland%ti-csl@csnet-rela

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.