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To: Kashish King who wrote (1601)	11/20/1997 4:03:00 AM
From: Kal	Respond to of 4903

tell the poor souls that blindly worship windows but think they're all aware of how loving and caring microsoft is. one good joke I like: word 7 is not backward compatible with word 6. when customers complained, microsft goes: Oh, we forgot, here is a patch. MooWahahaaha. cough yeah wright. forgot. it's called milking the customer with needless upgrades. I still use word 2. no need for 6, 7, or 8.

To: Kashish King who wrote (1601)	11/20/1997 12:26:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4903

Rod, The reason Windows doesn't have a built-in spelling checker is that Microsoft isn't competing with another OS and that universal tool is probably the primary reason people purchase, launch, and wait for Word. It's amazing because so many people have bought Word and have only used a fraction of it's capabilities. You can download a spell checker for wordpad called Cetus, does make Wordpad quite usefull and can do the work for most people who just need simple word processing. OS/2 tried to compete with Windows and didn't cut it. It didn't cut it because of lack of power or features like built in word processing, etc etc. It's too bad there is not the level of competition with OS's as there is with browsers, we would all greatly benefit! Derek