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From: dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Microsoft cuts corners, actually
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Date: 19 Aug 88 16:37:05 GMT
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In <6766@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>, Chuck Lukaszewski writes:
| First, Microsoft has acquired a deserved reputation in the last two years
| that they rush products to the market.  Corallary:  the users get to debug
| the product.  This was certainly true with two major software releases:
| Word 3.0 and Microsoft Mail....
| 
| Also in fairness to Microsoft, this reputation is recent and can be fixed, I
| think.

The reputation may be recent, but the misbehavior at Microsoft is not.  The
initial version of Microsoft Multiplan for the Mac in 1984 was recalled from
dealers' shelves very soon after release.
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