Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!isle From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: You Have *My Word* On It Keywords: Bill Gates == Joe Isuzu? Message-ID: <12216@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 14 Feb 89 17:39:43 GMT References: <6947@fluke.COM> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) Organization: Personal Computing Center, Dartmouth College Lines: 22 In article <6947@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes: >From the 2/14/89 issue of MacWeek: > > [Bill Gates says that] Word 4.0 will ship "very, very soon and is > GUARANTEED TO BE COMPLETELY BUG-FREE." {My caps} > >Well. That'll be a first. > *sigh* I really hope someone wasn't stupid enough to say that. Let's face it, you'd be hard-pressed to think of any software package out today that has no bugs (or didn't at the initial release). Word 4.0 has added a lot of stuff and there's definitely still bugs lingering around... And they won't find them all til the users do. Ken Ken Hancock '90 | BITNET/UUCP/ Personal Computing Ctr Consultant | INTERNET: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER? I don't get paid enough to worry about disclaimers.