Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
Date: Tue Apr 23 15:23:38 2002

> For some time now, the gaming console market has been where the real
> technological advances in consumer/PC computers have been made. Most PC
> users in the business world could get along just fine with a '386 if the OS
> and software weren't so bloated now.
>
> Bob (who is still trying in vain to get MS WinWord to behave and who uses a
> WordStar clone on the HP palmtop he carries)

The secret to making this work is pretty simple... you just need to
drop back to Word for Windows 2.0... it's fast, stable, and even has
VBA (albeit they called it WordBASIC back then).

-dq
Received on Tue Apr 23 2002 - 15:23:38 BST