[muglo] Re: PowerPoint

> On 23-Jan-05, at 7:01 AM, Theresa Roth wrote:
> 
> > Theresa writes
> > I am using PowerPoint in Office for Mac.  What is Appleworks?
> 
> Appleworks is the integrated WP, DB, SS, Paint, Draw software programme
> made by Apple that comes with all new Macs; has for quite a few years.
> Office for Mac was based on Appleworks, called Clarisworks at the time.

Just a little bit of revisionism going on here?

Office for Mac based on AppleWorks (nee CW nee MacWrite)? That's a
lark and a half.

Microsoft Word 1.05a and MacWrite 1.7 were contemporaries (copyright
1984) with roughly equal (but distinct) performance -- MacWrite was
the epitome of simplicity but lacked some power, whilst Word was a
touch more complex but much more capable (I switched to Word 1.05a
pretty early on in my computing career b/c it could do things simply
that were virtually (if not completely) impossible in MacWrite). In
the late 80s a lot more work went into improving Word than MacWrite
and, by the time Word 4.0 and MacWrite II were competing the level of
investment really showed.

Microsoft Excel is the undisputed champion of GUI spread sheets and it
predates ClarisWorks by maybe a decade (I'm not sure when CW came out
with a spread sheet component). The *only* contender that's ever come
close to giving Excel a run for its money is Quattro Pro (a spread
sheet I still would prefer to use if it were available, but,
unfortunately it's Windows only and has been discontinued???). Though,
that's not true either. I was quite impressed by Lotus/IBM's spread
sheet app (can't remember what it was called) too.

The notion that Office was based off CW is rather laughable. Office
was built on stand alone apps that were the industry standards, and,
in many ways, the industry bests too. CW really was effectively built
around MacWrite. The other components were afterthoughts (were they
ever stand-alone?) tacked on so Apple could have a "full" office
suite. As for the quality of CW/AW vs. Office, there's a bait e-mail
that I'm just chomping at the bit to get to.

PS I love having muglo on GMail. It means I can dispatch 20 or 30
e-mails in well under a minute, rather than wasting 10 or 15 minutes
on Hotmail.

Eric.
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