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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (29174)	9/5/1999 10:37:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 74651

John, re:You make the case for MSFT very well. Perhaps that's why I've been invested in them since 91. I love UNIX, it pays the bill - but I'm not a stupid investor.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (29174)	9/6/1999 12:42:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Don't you think that Gates and Balmer know there are more clerks and office workers than there are engineers? You posed this to address the unix issue, however I would like to turn it around and discuss Word. MS Word has turned into what the old FrameMaker used to be when I was forced to use that to produce technical docs - in other words, Word is too complex and cumbersome for 90% of documents used in the workplace UNLESS you are a document processing professional. The old Word 2.0 (if anybody remembers that), which was the precursor to word 6, was the ideal office word processing product in my view. It was fast and simple, etc. Today's product is not like that, its slow, and you can erroneously hit some toolbar key like overstrike and spend « hour trying to figure out what you did and how to get out of it. In my last job we started using the email system as a cheap replacement for word. These docs would go around in email, everyone would add their comments and finally the admin would have to go through the laborious task of typing into word. 6 years ago the same chain of events, except that then we used word as the interoffice communication tool and framemaker as the documentation chore/nightmare. Since I can see this happening again, where the doc tool has become too cumbersome for simple notes, etc. I think there could be something to this star office, IF its a simple system.