brian@t2ns1.gcs.co.nz (11/15/89)
Hi y'all. After weeks of fruitless pressure on the NZ distributor of UNIX Microsoft Word, with no response, I have decided to appeal to the net for a direct distributor from Australia, US, UK, Canada or wherever. The story thus far is; MS dist: "Oh, we have MS Word, but only version three!" Me: "Great how much?" MS dist: "Oooh yuk you don't want V3!" Me: "Yes I bloody well do - here's some cash!" MS dist: "Wait 'till version 5 comes out ... later" Me: "Is it feasible if I buy V3 now and upgrade to version 5 upon it's release?" MS dist: "Um, okay." Me: "Great! How much" MS dist: "We prefer not to deal directly with end users..." Me: <Gnash!> After they never got back I set our Concord rep at his throat. The story thus far repeated 4 times; Me: "Well?" Concord:"We haven't heard back..." Help! We want MS Word on our Concord 386 box, Microport UNIX. (We want it over the readily avaliable Word Perfect simply because everyone *already* knows how to use it. We have Uniplex, but, frankly, we all think it's word processor sucks.) This is not a slag-off at either Concord or Microsoft. Consider me disclaimed. Any and all replies gratefully accepted. Thanks in advance. -- Brian Burroughs (I know I have a boring .sig!), Govt Computing Service Ltd, _________ P.O. Box 11-642, Manners Street, Wellington, New Zealand. _________ ______________ Voice: +64 4 801-8000 Fax: +64 4 801-8888 __________________ _____________________ Email: brian@t2ns1.gcs.co.nz __________________________