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To: JC Jaros who wrote (23491)	11/28/1999 3:24:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

What's in this thing, Just quoting Magid, but I can make some guesses. One interesting tidbit is that the basic Works still has a simplified word processor, but if you get Works Suite you get Word, whether you like it or not! So much for staying simple! As for the bulk, I don't know that I am surprised. I'll bet that if one looked through what got installed one would find a ton of things that could be deleted and one would never miss them and, which may not even show up as options on the custom/expert install. But, hey, it just reminds me of a little piece in ComputerWorld some months back where they had a little table of the number of lines of code in various operating systems. Unix was 6-10 MLOC. NT4.0 was 15 MLOC. W2K is 35-40 MLOC. I sure don't think that's because it is proportionally more functional!