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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Message-ID: <30156@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 May 89 15:18:24 GMT
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>How about the third party macro maker and thesaurus.  Why MS couldn't have
>written their own is beyond me.  Would MicroSoft care to comment?

Since I use QuickKeys, I've never touched the macromaker. But I have used
the thesaurus, and it's not bad. As to why MS didn't implement their own --
well, I'm not Microsoft, but I can give one reason: why re-implement the
wheel when a decent product is already available off the shelf? Do we really
need billions of different thesaurus products, each with their own quirks
and incompatible data files?


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      [This is myself speaking. No company can control my thoughts.]

Bookends. What a wonderful thought.