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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (15059)	12/18/1997 7:56:00 PM
From: Schiz	Respond to of 24154

Which spreadsheet is the easiest to use? Lotus 1-2-3 97 is (IMO) much easier to use than excel. I am forced to use excel at times for compatibility reasons and will often manipulate the data in 1-2-3 and paste it to excel. Perhaps this is because I'm more used to 1-2-3 but I don't think so. The way excel copies and pastes sucks. From what I can tell (and from what people that use excel have told me) you can't create a vertical page break. The only thing (I've seen up to this point) that excel is better at is basic sorting, it's fast and easy. I'd list more but I have to go.

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (15059)	12/19/1997 5:55:00 PM
From: Justin Banks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Which spread sheet is the easiest to use? The only one you know how to use? This is like asking somebody from Turkey which language makes more sense, Turkish, or English. Which Wordprocessor is the easiest to use? how about database? Presentation program? See above. Which ones use natural language and artifiical intelligence? Do you know how silly this sounds? Give me an example of AI in MSFT products, please. -justinb

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (15059)	12/19/1997 6:32:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>>> If consumers think that Windows is difficult to use, they will have a heart attack if they try to use UNIX based NC's I don't think you get the concept of NCs. It is not a question of whether they are UNIX-based, Mac-based, PC-based, VMS-based, or MULTICS-based. The NC's operating system is transparent to the consumer. They don't have to install anything, and so certainly maintenance is easier. And to whether the apps themselves are easier to use, that is yet to be seen. I have run lots of easy-to-use UNIX, graphical applications. I don't think that you have any UNIX experience to even have a guess as to how easy or hard it is, although that lack of knowledge never seems to stop you from forming an opinion anyhow. >>> Which Wordprocessor is the easiest to use? how about database? Presentation program? Do you know the answer to these questions? Have you compared products, and on different platforms?