----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: I wrote 'Nuke Redmond'
> > I can't leave this one alone either.
> >
> > Dick
<snip>
> >
>
> Actually, you can purchase Office2000 and WordPerfect 2000 and Lotus
> Smartsuite Millenium -- the latter two under $120... Office is
> considerably more retail -- unless you corporate license under discount.
>
> Actually grey market versions of the later are under $25 each.
>
> I know, I bought both to compare them with the Office used at work and
> forced on me. I liked them (used SmartSuite96 at IBM for a while) and
> WordPerfect is now purchased and running on my wife's Linux box.
>
I must be out of touch these days, since I'm not on the market for new OA
software. Are you sure those "grey-market" versions of the software are not
counterfeit? It's hard to tell the difference, except, perhaps, by the
price.
>
> I'm actually a WordStar 6 kind of guy, if I'm not using FrameMaker though.
>
I gave up on Wordstar with v5.5. (??) which I got back in '90 or so. Back
then, the practice was to dog MS as compared with the Mac.
Win 3.0 was already floating around, though I didn't have it myself. I
bought into Windows quite late, (late '91) though I didn't dislike it then.
There were problems but mainly because the software utilities, e.g.
Smartdrv, didn't work correctly in that incarnation.
Though I'd been a faithful Wordstar user since '79, I liked Word for Windows
v2.0 quite well. That came out about concurrently with Win3.1.
> bpechter_at_monmouth.com | Microsoft: Where do you want to go today?
> | Linux: Where do you want to go
tomorrow?
> | BSD: Are you guys coming, or what?
>
Received on Mon May 08 2000 - 08:46:29 BST