Bill Gates on Vista and Apple's 'Lying' Ads (Mac OS X vs Vista)

[David Herren]

Please don't quote me, but I always felt the Word 4.0 on the Mac was  
a thing of beauty. Word 5.0, however.... well, I believe that's about  
the time that I began to use the word "anti-christ' with respect to  
anything coming out of redmond...

On Feb 3, 2007, at 8:41 PM, Glenn Carnagey wrote:

> To be fair, the early Microsoft Mac apps did help to standardize  
> the first top mac app menus and menu items as we know them today.   
> earliest versions of Word/Excel/File.  I remember them more as  
> being among the participants in the process, but whatever.  The  
> tearing tragedy (IMO) was how wonderfully simple and easy to use  
> they were, compared to their behemoth descendents, far more  
> productive and efficient.  really sad.


/david

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