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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (31682)	12/29/1998 9:53:00 PM
From: tonyt	Respond to of 164684

Manzi (and others) didn't think that windoz (is was back then) would win over the convience and speed of DOS (also, M$ does (or did) have a history of holding back info from competitors. >They developed first for Windows, and then trumped the entire applications space >by publishing Office and an incredibly attractive price There was a lot of time (years!) between Windows and 'Office'. The software was sold individually for a long time before the 'suite' packaging became standard. > Lotus 123 for Windows 1.0 was a joke. Almost as funny as Window 1.0 :-) Anyway, if anything, this demonstrates how being first does not guarantee being number 1.