Re: Any experience with "The Last One"?

From: Dr. Richard E. Hawkins (hawk_at_slytherin.ds.psu.edu)
Date: 12/11/03 

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:25:29 +0000 (UTC)

In article <VTOBb.80864$_M.407053@attbi_s54>,
Lon Stowell <LonDot.Stowell@ComcastPeriod.Net> wrote:
>Roughly 12/10/03 02:41, Gerry Quinn's monkeys randomly typed:

>>>Not the Works package, the full blown office suite.

>> I challenge you to provide a single example.

> I have a Gateway workstation system that came with Office/97.

> Looking on the Gateway and Dell websites, it looks like pricing
> pressure has removed this practice recently...as in I haven't
> had any reason to pay attention in years.

But turn back the clock a few years. I don't believe that MS Office (or
even Excel or Word) made significant inroads until they came
preinstalled on many, many machines. They were a distant second or
third on the PC until that point (unlike the Mac versions, which were
much better, an dnearly universal).

hawk 

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