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To: Arch who wrote (3915)	12/13/1997 9:34:00 PM
From: Leo Mitkievicz	Respond to of 9798

Arch: I still use MS Office everyday as the default productivity suite. What has drawn me to Corel is my frustration with MS products: MS utterly ignores users' needs and does not respect users' long-term investment in user interface and file formats. I know several who use Office at work and WP at home. They prefer WP without exception. I recall the editor of Home Office Magazine (or something like that) saying, last summer on CNBC that all three Suites were about equal. If you could learn to use one, you could easily handle the others. Lotus was rated a little stronger for its spreadsheet, WP for the word processor, and MS for all around and thats the one most use. His opinion was that they were functionally the same to the user with the main differences being the colors on the screen. For a while I thought the office suite was about to become a commodity item, then Corel's sales floundered and MS's took off. MS has played a lot of games with its file formats. I sense opportunity here. (heh, heh) Only the lawyers know for sure. (And they probably don't have a clue without a definitive ruling.) I'll try to dig up some stuff on that JA96 court ruling. Important enough to know something about. Leo