[Am-info] Re: adopting alternative OSes

[mike]

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From: "T. Guilbert" <ethical@1of1.net>
To: <am-info@venice.essential.org>
Received: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 19:19:13 -0700
Subject: [Am-info] Re: adopting alternative OSes

>In a message dated 2003 April 27 (Sunday), timestamp 07:03 PM, 
>   on the topic Re: [Am-info] Re: adopting alternative OSes,
>   mike <mikestp@telus.net> wrote:

>"|What made people choose OS's is the same thing that makes
>"|people choose  today... Word ran best in windows and it came=
 with
>"|their computer.    That was the reason why OS/2 never even=
 came up
>"|on the radar screen on  my campus, and in my private life.

>"|Word was available for OS/2
>"|1.2, Wordperfect, Lotus 123, Excell, Ventura Publisher,=
 Pagemaker,
>"|Micrographics, Describe, And many others.  

>I have known many users and companies who need Word=
 _compatability_
>(because others use it).  I have never met one person -- not one=
 --
>who did not have complete loathing of Word as a program.  It=
 sucked
>before, and it sucks now:  it is one of the worst designed=
 application
>programs of all time, period.  In the time frame you are=
 talking
>about, WrodPerfect was still dominant, and the need for Word
>compatability was not as compelling as it has since become.  

>In short, whatever other relevance your arguments may have, the
>argument that Microsoft beat OS/2 because of Word is simply=
 ludicrous.

My emailer (express Plus) failed to quote the text properly.  I=
 assure you I am no fan of Word, and I agree that at the time=
 (1990) Word was not considered a contender as a word processor. =
 Wordperfect was current king, and was available in both windows=
 versions, DOS versions and OS/2 versions.
 Word was also available in Dos OS/2 And Windows versions.

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