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From: s160041@castor.ucdavis.edu (Greg DeMichillie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Excel 2.2 due out soon
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Date: 4 May 89 17:23:12 GMT
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In article <7091@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Excel 2.2 for the Macintosh will be out
>sometime around the end of the second quarter.
>
>Maybe someone can answer this:  How does Microsoft come up with numbers for
>their applications?  It seems strange to go from 1.5 to 2.2...
>
>-- 
>Michael Niehaus        UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas
>Apple Student Rep      ARPA:  mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
>Ball State University  AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)

Ah yes, the ever popular "How the hell does Microsoft come up with`
version numbers" question.  They are trying to make their version
numbering consistent across the Mac and PC/Windows Platforms.  Cases in
point:

	- The first version of Excel for Windows was 2.x 
	    Why?  Becaus it was more powerful than the Mac version
	    (1.03 at that time)

	- There never was Word version 2 for the Mac, they went
	  directly from 1.05 to 3.0(1)
	    Why?  Because they were bring the level of features up
	    to Word 3.x on the PC

I guess in an general way this makes sense, but it sure confuses the
heck out of Mac users who couldn't give a rat's rear end about what
the current version for the PC is.

Now, you`re all set for the Computer Software category on Trivial
Pursuit :-)


Greg DeMichillie               *          Apple Student Rep - UC Davis 
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Greg DeMichillie               *          Apple Student Rep - UC Davis 
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