Re: Amelio's ouster

[GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (Henrik 'Ratte' Gudat)]

In <33C99107.F5F68740@ix.netcom.com> "Brian writes:

>   More or less a big purchasing decision of many users is whether or not
> they can get Office or at least Word on their new computer. Macintosh is
> lucky that they get Word and Powerpoint on their systems. MS's code for
> Word (amongst others) is NOT 90% portable, nor is it even 70% (possibly
> 60%?). This means LOTS of money into development for a particular

Sorry but this is not true. Word is p-code and the reason why most people 
avoid it on the Mac. It's a monster application, and Microsoft had better
things to do than taking care of acceptable performance. People were pissed off
by Word 6 and ordered Word 5 which was created for the Mac from scratch. IMO,
the only differences between Word 6 and Word 5 are slugginess and the zoom box.

>   Yes, Rhapsody will probably slowly kill Apple if it doesn't have
> support of AT LEAST Microsoft. Rhapsody better at least run old System 7
> software. I love the idea of the new OS, but without Microsoft's
> blessing, they're digging a grave.

Luckily, there are companies that do word processing et al without all the
bells and whistles but in a much more appealing way. I wonder why people are so
much focused on the Microsoft brand. There are other companies that are
developing software products, and chances are high they - unlike MS - even know
how to do it.


henrik