* amicus_curious fired off this tart reply: > Where on earth does Borland fit into this picture? WordPerfect once led the > league, but Borland was a rummy all the way. Lotus was once a winner, too, > even VisiCorp(?) or whatever company name they used, but hardly Borland. Actually, it sounds like you never heard of Quattro Pro. Also, though it is a side-trek, what Microsoft did to Borland's compiler team is, if I recall correctly, a sad story. From hero to zero in a few short years of brain drain. > VisiCalc was savaged by Lotus, BTW, not Microsoft, or have you forgotten > that? Interesting. I need to learn more about that. > You talk of "leveraging the transition to Windows" as if it were some way of > cheating and ignore the fact that Microsoft made Windows what it is today. > A great part of building Windows was the introduction of Word and Excel on > Windows when Word Perfect and Lotus were actively refusing to offer their > products for fear of dignifying Microsoft's OS efforts. I suppose if you > hate MS enough you can dream up all sorts of imagined "crimes", but you are > still way off base and achieve nothing by the doing. Sounds like you've been dreaming up "Windows when Word Perfect and Lotus were actively refusing to offer their products for fear of dignifying Microsoft's OS efforts", a thought which is highly ridiculous at face value. Microsoft made sure that they had an immense head start on Windows versions of their office products by hiding information. It's as simple as that. And I won't even get into the crap they pulled with Apple. Ironically, I used WordPerfect for Windows, and I really liked it, though it had some bugs. It was certainly more tractable then than Word is even today, I feel. Maybe our company will eventually "upgrade" to Office 2007 so I can experience a stable, usable (by that I mean pleasant to use) implementation of Word. As of Word 2003, it is junk as far as I'm concerned. -- Tux rox!

* amicus_curious fired off this tart reply: > <nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu> wrote in message > news:0713314a-ec20-48ae-b2e6-c4d582911cf6@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com... >> <Quote> > > More whining crapola from the same unlettered, anti-MS grump, this time > trying to excuse Apple for doing the exact same thing that Microsoft does. > > Are you incapable of formulating your own thoughts and have to cite other > nobodies as the only way to express yourself? However do you expect to make > it on your own someday? > > Tut. And you accuse others of being aimless in their ramblings or providing non-answers. What a hypocrite. And you obviously didn't read the roughlydrafted stuff too closely. -- Tux rox!