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Subject: Re: MS-Word5 graphics screen problem
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Date: 3 Feb 90 02:12:22 GMT
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batman@watsci.uwaterloo.ca (Marcell Stoer) writes:

> I am not trying to cause an argument here, I've been a WORD user for a long
> time now, but I have to start writing a thesis and it seems to be easiest wit
> Word Perfect 5.1.  I have some adjusting to do, but I am finding that without
> manual I'm getting along quite well (I don't like reading manuals, I'm use to
> working with Mac's, just click on everything and see what happens). :-)

Somehow I find it hard to think of any less useful class of messages
than those by overly-partisan devotees of one good program who insist
that another good program is lousy.

For myself, I have Word Perfect 5.1 and I love it.  Since I have
access to a laser printer and I require WP's ability to carefully
kern and balance fonts, Microsoft Word would not do for me.  However,
it is undeniably an excellent word processor and I can't think of
any sensible reason to engage in confrontational exchanges regarding
which one is "better".

Perhaps, after the above, I shouldn't say this, but in all honesty I
do think that anyone who thinks Windows is capable of matching the
Mac's environment in any regard has probably never used a Mac.  I
have reasons for choosing the PC over the Mac, but they have more to
do with Apple's corporate attitude towards developers and their
sole-source-and-we-know-it machine prices than anything I could say
against their system software.