moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (02/14/89)
From the 2/14/89 issue of MacWeek:
[Bill Gates says that] Word 4.0 will ship "very, very soon and is
GUARANTEED TO BE COMPLETELY BUG-FREE." {My caps}
Well. That'll be a first.
For the human race.
"Once the number three, being the third number, be
reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of
Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naught in my
sight, shall snuff it."
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<*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (02/14/89)
> [Bill Gates says that] Word 4.0 will ship "very, very soon and is > GUARANTEED TO BE COMPLETELY BUG-FREE." {My caps} > >Well. That'll be a first. Well, from where I stand, it may not be bug-free, but it'll come pretty darn close. They're spending a *lot* of money shipping out new beta releases (overnight express) to all their beta sites. Lots of new beta releases. Each one closer and closer to bug-free (as far as I can tell, the only bugs left are ones I'd declare 'obscure'). I've been beating on it for a while in Beta, and the worst I could do to it was get it to glitch the screen updating under really obscure conditions. I'm *trying* to crash it, too. Honest. chuq Chuq Von Rospach -*- Editor,OtherRealms -*- Member SFWA chuq@apple.com -*- CI$: 73317,635 -*- Delphi: CHUQ -*- Applelink: CHUQ [This is myself speaking. No company can control my thoughts.] Signature quotes? We don't need no stinkin' signature quotes!
isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) (02/15/89)
In article <6947@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes: >From the 2/14/89 issue of MacWeek: > > [Bill Gates says that] Word 4.0 will ship "very, very soon and is > GUARANTEED TO BE COMPLETELY BUG-FREE." {My caps} > >Well. That'll be a first. > *sigh* I really hope someone wasn't stupid enough to say that. Let's face it, you'd be hard-pressed to think of any software package out today that has no bugs (or didn't at the initial release). Word 4.0 has added a lot of stuff and there's definitely still bugs lingering around... And they won't find them all til the users do. Ken Ken Hancock '90 | BITNET/UUCP/ Personal Computing Ctr Consultant | INTERNET: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER? I don't get paid enough to worry about disclaimers.