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To: Eveline Bernard who wrote (9369)	6/18/2000 6:15:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

I am one of the people forced to use Word and Power Point by a nitwit CIO. Calculated the firm (30 000 people) loses 15 % of its time every day in MS bugs and incompatibility All that lost productivity...<sigh> Maybe a breakup of MSFT is just the ticket we need to get Alan Greenspan off of our cases. Just imagine... as we all start using Linux products and get away from MicroSerf, US productivity will increase 15% and then AG will HAVE TO cut interest rates.... (tongue planted firmly in cheek, of course... <VBG> Btw, just last night I was trying to download a large file from a site. So while I'm downloading, I decided to surf around a little bit. But alas, whilst halfway through my download (130 meg, I seem to recall), my browser(IE5.0) suddenly locked up and I had to reboot. That also meant that I begin my download all over again. Thank you Bill Gates.... You have numbed (dumbed?) all of us internet users down to the point where we expect your BS software to crash on us just when we need it most. Regards, Ron

To: Eveline Bernard who wrote (9369)	6/18/2000 10:04:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9798

Eveline, Tens if not hundreds of millions of users choose to pay at least triple the price and buy Microsoft Office over Lotus, Word Perfect, Star Office and and a half dozen other office products out there. If you're forced to use Word and Power Point against your will, retire again. As for your phoney metrics about 15% losses, multiply that by 650% to compute how badly you would be affected by switching to WP across the board. Who do you think you're fooling with your bogus claims and nonsense about this hand-me-down product somehow being better because it's not from Microsoft? You're simply fooling yourself. The reason your CIO uses Microsoft Office is that he discovered he would save $356,000 on an annual basis by not using Corel's bug-ridden office bloatware. I think it would be much worse than that but let's give him the benefit of the doubt.