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- From: adam@tucson.princeton.edu (Adam J. Thornton)
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
- Subject: Re: congrats to ardi
- Date: 7 Jun 1996 14:43:53 GMT
- Organization: Princeton University
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- In article <4p8201$ibr@hercules.its.csiro.au>,
- Mat Ballard <m.ballard@chem.csiro.au> wrote:
- >M$ aren't dumb - if they could sell mac versions of their apps into the
- >PC world, they'd be in seventh heaven.
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- Hardly.
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- MS Apps are Windows Apps.
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- That's why Word 6 sucks so much--they went for a common code base.
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- MS Mac programs are ports of their Windows programs these days, and if they
- make you buy Windows then they get the OS sale too. If you already have
- Windows you'll just buy the Windows version.
-
- I don't really follow the Mac software market, but what MS apps are
- available for the Mac that do not have Windows counterparts?
-
- Ada,
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