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Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:22:10 +0100
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"amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:

> "Sermo Malifer" <sermomalifer@noemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If that were true we'd all still be running Word Perfect on CP/M!
>>
> Again you miss the obvious.  If Word were not orders of magnitude more
> useful and capable than WordPerfect on CP/M, we might still be using
> WordPerfect albeit on Vista.  But that is not the case and WordPerfect
> is dead as a dodo.

AFAIR, WordPerfect on CP/M was particularly useless because it did not
even exist.  As opposed to, say, WordStar on CP/M.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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