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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pgerassi who wrote (108860)	5/1/2000 2:37:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571935

Pete, You had better check those prices. Word Perfect was about $90, Lotus was about $150 if you got if right after it came with a new version, and dBase costed about $50 to $125 depending on what you wanted. You must be talking about upgrades, and recent pricing. I am talking about pricing during pre-Office days, meaning in days before MSFT (or competition) packaged the applications in office suites. Back than, a new license of each individual application was $500 to $750. In those days, (I am taling about late 80s), you did not get a pre-installed set of applications with your computer at discounted price. I think it was Borland who started the slashing of prices of these bundles, but the pricing remained largely unchanged since then. Borland's lower pricing applied to "competitive upgrades" which Microsoft adopted. Speaking of individual prices, here are some from Microsoft: Excel 2000 (Upgrade / Competitive upgrade): $88.95 necxdirect.necx.com Word 2000 (Upgrade / Competitive upgrade): $70.95 necxdirect.necx.com Access 2000 (Upgrade): $87.95 necxdirect.necx.com I think you will be hard pressed to go to any time in history to get better pricing for high quality software. Speaking of bloat, the next time you install, go to Custom install, and install only the bare bone product, it it really bothers you to have things like Spell Checker, Thesaurus, Grammar checker, ability to open non-native format (Lotus, Word Perfect), mail merge, ability to connect to a database, ability to include graphics in your document etc. I have a 40 GB hard disk that I bought for < $300, so for me cost of having these goodies (bloat for you) is only a few pennies. If the GUI and WYSIWYG bothers you, you can always go back to Word Perfect for DOS and the highly intuitive user interface (blank screen). Joe