kmarko@hpdml93.HP.COM (Kurt Marko) (07/12/89)
I just wanted to check to see if anyone has gotten the Excel V2.2 UPGRADE yet (remember that?). I'm afraid that Microsoft may be pulling another Symantec w.r.t. upgrades (i.e. in the spirit of Lightspeed C v3.0...sending out new shrink wrap originals before the upgrades; making old users wait months for the new version). Only data I have to support this is the recent ads by mailorder houses in MacWorld for v2.2, and a NEW box with Excel v2.2 received by someone in our department. I'm not dumping on Microsoft, I just wanted to get more than "local" data (and I'd really like to be able to run Excel again, since I do use Multifinder, and do run inits, and can't reserve the first megabyte of memory for them). Thanks Kurt Marko
chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (07/13/89)
kmarko@hpdml93.HP.COM (Kurt Marko) writes: >I just wanted to check to see if anyone has gotten the Excel V2.2 >UPGRADE yet (remember that?). Mine arrived. There was a few week delay -- longer than I waited for Word 4, much shorter than I waited for LSC. chuq Chuq Von Rospach =|= Editor,OtherRealms =|= Member SFWA/ASFA chuq@apple.com =|= CI$: 73317,635 =|= AppleLink: CHUQ [This is myself speaking. No company can control my thoughts.] You are false data. Therefore I shall ignore you.
spector@acf3.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) (07/13/89)
Well, I sent im my upgrade coupon over 6 weeks ago and haven't heard
a peep out of Microsoft yet... but they haven't charged my American
Express card yet either. I hope they start sending the kits out
soon... I too would like to be able to use excel again (that is until
system 7.0 comes out :-(! )...
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In article <470002@hpdml93.HP.COM> kmarko@hpdml93.HP.COM (Kurt Marko) writes: > >I just wanted to check to see if anyone has gotten the Excel V2.2 >UPGRADE yet (remember that?). I received my 2.2 upgrade kit earlier this week. I seem to remember I returned my upgrade order quite promptly, so I'd expect others' are on the way. It looks quite nice, though I haven't had much time to play with it. And of course the nicest thing is not having to worry about getting it into the first 1MB of memory. Barry Eynon eynon@lindy.stanford.edu
markham@phi.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Markham) (07/14/89)
I got my 5 copies of Excel 2.2 about 3 weeks ago. We are very pleased with the improvements. We have several 200K+ spreadsheets that were not able to open under Multifinder because of the 1MB memory cap and were happy to see the 8MB enhancement. Also, our highest praise goes to the enhancement of file saving/opening/closing speed. It is amazing how much faster these operations are. Thank you Microsoft! Andrew W. Markham <markham@sunmail.cs.unc.edu> Computer Science Department UNC-CH "Nobody in the world can cover my main man Michael Jordan. No, No, Nooobody." -Mars Blackmon
ted@ssc-vax.UUCP (T J Jardine) (07/14/89)
From article <470002@hpdml93.HP.COM>, by kmarko@hpdml93.HP.COM (Kurt Marko): > I just wanted to check to see if anyone has gotten the Excel V2.2 > UPGRADE yet (remember that?). I'm afraid that Microsoft may be > pulling another Symantec w.r.t. upgrades (i.e. in the spirit of > Lightspeed C v3.0...sending out new shrink wrap originals before > the upgrades; making old users wait months for the new version). > ... Got my upgrade notice around the first of June and sent it in the next day with credit card payment for the upgrade price from version 1.5. Just got the upgrade on July 11, 1989 -- about six weeks. The fragmented memory problem has been solved, apparently, since I can now load Excel 2.2 on my 8MB Mac II after running almost anything I want. (almost, since I haven't tried everything yet). It also appears that Excel 2.2 files will frequently consume less disk space than their 1.5 versions, with no changes in content of the file. I also got the Wingz upgrade to provide a wider basis for performance and feature comparison. Excel 2.2 files are sometimes smaller than Wingz files for the same content; other cases 2.2 files are larger than Wingz. The differences in disk size range from 10% to 55% in my sample population. Wingz should really have used a syntax for file name references that was more like the MacOS allows, since their severe restriction constrains not only file names but precludes references to files in folders other than the one that is currently open. Excel 2.2, like 1.5, doesn't have this problem. My impression so far is that Excel is slower by far in saving and loading -- Wingz seems to accomplish both in almost lightning fashion. TJ {With Amazing Grace} The Piper aka Ted Jardine CFI-ASME/I Usenet: ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ted Internet: ted@atc.boeing.com -- TJ {With Amazing Grace} The Piper aka Ted Jardine CFI-ASME/I Usenet: ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ted Internet: ted@atc.boeing.com