OT: Smarter people do exist

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Bill Campbell been jivin' 'bout like:
>> IHMO, the best system for the average desktop user is OS X.  If you want to
>> run PhotoShop, all the Adobe stuff is available.  If OpenOffice.org doesn't
>> fill your needs for normal productivity applications, you can buy Office
>> from the Redmond Raptor.  Programs like iTunes, iPhoto, etc. have
>> everything the average user needs, and if you really want to get fancy
>> there are things like Final Cut Pro which knock the socks off anything
>> running on Windows.
>
>Yes, but for instance...while I know for a -fact- that MS had Word 4.0 for
>Mac (the -best- word processor I ever used, surpassing even the current
>'doze versions, IMHO), do they have Excel?  If not, my wife couldn't use
>it.  She -needs- the official Excel, with the official and full VB macro
>support, or it's shot for work purposes.  You can't convince the state
>government (and its consultancies) to change over all their systems.  It
>just isn't going to happen.

The version I just loaded on an eMac here for my wife is ``Office Mac
2004'' which has Word, Excel, PowerPoint (yuch!), Entourage, and MSN
Messanger.  I might actually be willing to use word if the software I saw
referenced today in a discussion of the vi editor and it's
``shortcomings'':

	http://dready.org/blog/section/viword/

Bill
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