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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is Word4.0 here?
Message-ID: <28711@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 89 15:14:03 GMT
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>In it last notice, Microsoft said that version 4.0 would have been
>released in the FIRST QUARTER of 1989.  Has anyone gotten anything yet?

As of Friday, it hadn't been released. However, Microsoft *has* shipped what
it thinks is the golden copy to beta sites for one final "let's make sure
something didn't sneak in during that last compile" -- so unless something
nasty pops in, it looks like it's about to be soup.

Since I'm under non-disclosure, I don't want to go into details, but I will
say this: based on what I've seen of the Word 4 beta, most companies would
have shipped this product weeks ago. Which I think says a lot about
Microsoft's attempt to make Word 4 clean.



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