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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (17023)2/3/1998 9:15:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
<Please make a list of productivity gains that the average worker can attribute to Office97 and all those wizards? Why do so many people still run Win3.11? Just how many ways can a person add two numbers and print a pie chart better than they could 5 years ago?>

Let's put it this way. The non-ilkster that priced your mortgage that bought the house that protects your computer purchased by your platinum credit card (processed by another non-ilkster who uses...) which has billing programs conceptualized by (guess what he is using) all relied on the Excel upgrade path you are denying.

Your CD's are derivatives modeled on the industry favorite spreadsheet (guess what it is), which makes you feel secure enought to gamble a bit on the option's market which trades those securities designed on....

Quite few people use Excel 95 and upgrade to Excel 97. For proof, take a look at MSFT's quartely statement. As for whether they get any use out of those gadgets, there are more power users in the world besides nerds, geeks and software evangelists.
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