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