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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (17023)	2/3/1998 9:15:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

<Please make a list of productivity gains that the average worker can attribute to Office97 and all those wizards? Why do so many people still run Win3.11? Just how many ways can a person add two numbers and print a pie chart better than they could 5 years ago?> Let's put it this way. The non-ilkster that priced your mortgage that bought the house that protects your computer purchased by your platinum credit card (processed by another non-ilkster who uses...) which has billing programs conceptualized by (guess what he is using) all relied on the Excel upgrade path you are denying. Your CD's are derivatives modeled on the industry favorite spreadsheet (guess what it is), which makes you feel secure enought to gamble a bit on the option's market which trades those securities designed on.... Quite few people use Excel 95 and upgrade to Excel 97. For proof, take a look at MSFT's quartely statement. As for whether they get any use out of those gadgets, there are more power users in the world besides nerds, geeks and software evangelists.

To: nommedeguerre who wrote (17023)	2/3/1998 10:51:00 PM
From: K. M. Strickler	Respond to of 24154

Norm, you make some good points on whether you need the latest version release, (see previous post). When I decided to get my 'new system', I thought the latest upgrade for me would be to Windows NT for Workstations! I was going the next step! Yes sir re Bob! This was my time! I ordered that system personally configured the way that I wanted it! 64M ram, 2-2.5G hard disks, 166M pentium! Hot Damn, hog heaven! Well - whoops! Printer driver for HP310C (yeah, I know) doesn't work! Logitech Mouse Driver not available! Satellite dish software not available! Here I am on the 'bleeding edge' and I can't get the thing to work. No problem, I get a W95 operating system, and can't seem to keep my second controller. I calls Gateway (computer provider) and tell the the technical staff. Well, appearently, they use a 'different' motherboard depending on whether you are going to run W95 or W for Workstations. What can I do? They have a patch from Intel that allows the Bus Mastering. That fixes my problem! I drop back the W95, and the peripheral works better, but every now and then, 'hang city'! I still boot up NT W for W, or NT Server, just to look at it. (The reason I have the different platform is to check out the software that I write to make sure that it will run an the various platforms.) As for the FAA, I wonder what could cause the Excel to overrun the system? Is somebody using some of those 'undocumented' calls? :) Ken