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From: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Excel 2.2 due out soon
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Date: 5 May 89 16:16:27 GMT
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In article <7091@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu 
(Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
   | 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...

It's a game of tag.  The next version will leapfrog the current PC version,
which is 2.1.  The major jump is due to the inclusion of the core engine.

   | -Michael

Stu.

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