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Re: (OT) The giant steps down before the crash
de Anne Carle 06/16/2006 11:36
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:53:19 +0800, Man-wai Chang
<toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hhmm. I wonder if there's data available to show that the downfall
>> of a software company begins when its products become bloatware?
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>I would never understand why M$ Word was so big compared to the good old
>WordPerfect 5.1 (if not 6.0). WP 5.1 could be fitted on a 1.4M diskette
>that offers more or less the same amount of features as in Word!
Interesting...probably the majority of us who do medical transcription
(sci.med.transcription) still use WP 5.1 because of its features and
simplicity. It's a dynamite program!
Anne/Ohio