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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: <1992Dec21.211729.13100@microsoft.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:17:29 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1gor8rINN63l@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1992Dec18.162416.14689@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Dec18.162416.14689@microsoft.com> philco@microsoft.com (Phillip Cooper) writes:
- >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.
- >
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- After doing some checking, I find that the statement I made above is not
- entirely correct. Free support is now provided only for setup questions and
- product inquiries. All other issues are covered on the Developer support
- line (ie 900#), CIS, or GEnie.
-
- >>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
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