[muglo] Re: PowerPoint

I have an old version of MacWrite Pro and a slightly younger version of
MSWord. I have Word because it seems to "read" every text document that
comes my way but my working word processing program is MWPro. Its simple,
straight forward, easy to use and isn't cluttered up with a load of bells
and whistles I don't need.

Letting go of MWPro will be painful one day soon as I "upgrade" to Panther
or whatever animal's name is in use at the time and will likely replace it
with AW because it seems to me to be what I want in a word processing
program --I could do without the rest of it but MicroSoft has started a
trend.

If MS owned, say, Illustrator or Photoshop, they would throw in spreadsheet
and word processing just so their marketing departments could advertise an
even more powerful "office suite" thereby winkling even more money out of
our pockets.

Call me suspicious, skeptical or jaded but I liked it when I could buy a WP
program or a drawing program and that's all that was in the box.

Bill Mc  
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> From: Tee Cashmore <teecashmore@xxxxxx>
> Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:17:43 -0500
> To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [muglo] Re: PowerPoint
> 
> 
> On 23-Jan-05, at 9:10 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> 
>> 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. ...
>> 
>> 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.
>> Eric.
> 
> Once again you are speaking tommy rot. Originally Appleworks was an
> Apple // programme , circa 1983 ish, & so many new Mac users in the mid
> eighties complained that MacWrite was not as good that eventually Apple
> came out with Clarisworks, based on the Apple //GS version of APW. The
> integration was superior to any Microsaft stuff. I could go on with the
> history lesson, but it is long and convoluted, but CW/AW was Never
> based on MacWrite.
> TTFN,
> TeeC
> 
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