Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!madd From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Word For Windows Message-ID: <36045@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 8 Aug 89 03:44:28 GMT References: <2106@csuna.csun.edu> <1228@rlgvax.UUCP> <2646@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR. <5480@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Distribution: usa Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group Lines: 9 In article <5480@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> mlawless@ncrwic.UUCP (Mike Lawless) writes: |Thus, it |is the official policy of outfits like Microsoft to not announce new or |improved products until they are absolutely ready for release. OS/2? Many would argue that not only was it announced prematurely, it was released prematurely. jim