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- Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!philco
- From: philco@microsoft.com (Phillip Cooper)
- Subject: Re: Microsoft BASIC & New Support Prices
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.162416.14689@microsoft.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 16:24:16 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1gor8rINN63l@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
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- In article <1gor8rINN63l@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> villalj@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (John Villalovos) writes:
- >Any one else out there notice that since December 1st Microsoft does not offer
- >free support anymore for their BASIC products (at least PDS). Now you have to
- >call either a 900 number, 800 number with credit card, CI$, or Genie.
- >
-
- That's not true. Free support is still provided for setup/install problems,
- usage questions, product inquiries and the like. The only thing that is
- charged for now is programming consulting services... i.e. how-to programming
- issues.
-
- >They don't seem to do this with programs like Excel.
- >
-
- We don't do that for any application product, only programming languages.
-
- Phil Cooper
-