Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OFF-TOPIC: read this
From: jon honeyball <jhoneyball@woodleyside.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:46:37 +0100

<shrugs>

Well obviously Chris Peters, VP of Office group (and original developer of
Excel) told me an untruth when I was last in the Office group's "war-room"
at Redmond...

Jon
Contributing Editor, PCPro
Columnist, MS Developer Network Journal
Columnist, Network News

- -----Original Message-----
From: Eric Welch [mailto:ewelch@ponyexpress.net]
Sent: 12 September 1999 14:40
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us;
'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
Subject: RE: [Leica] OFF-TOPIC: read this


At 11:41 AM 9/12/99 +0100, jon honeyball wrote:
>." True, thats cos Office 98 was a horribly
>late Macintosh port and repackage of Office 97 for Windows

You are wrong about this. It was not a port, it had more advanced features 
than Office 97 (which I am using right now. Office 2000 is a train wreck!).

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

I don't get no respect. I called a suicide prevention line and they tried 
to talk me into it.  -- Rodney Dangerfield