Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!midas!copper!jackd
From: jackd@copper.SDP.TEK.COM (Jack Decker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What happened to Word 4.0???
Keywords: Macintosh--still cheaper than a Cray
Message-ID: <2436@copper.SDP.TEK.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 88 17:40:15 GMT
References: <4213@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <70776@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: jackd@copper.SDP.TEK.COM (Jack Decker)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <70776@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>  My roommate has Word 3.02 and we've been waiting for Word 4.0 for a long
>>time now.  Wasn't it supposed to ship in August???
>
>Nope. Supposed to go to Beta in August. According to rumors, it is still in
>Beta. Due out sometime by the end of the year, I believe, but I don't know
>that Microsoft has committed to a date.
>
I spoke with a MS tech writer last week and he told me that their
announced release date--this October--was on schedule. The product
has appeared in the First Look column of InfoWorld as well, so I don't
think we have too much longer to wait. 




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