tanida@forseti.css.gov (Tom Tanida) (05/08/91)
Does anybody know when the (apparently delayed) Windows 3.1 was supposed to ship, or when it will be shipping? -Tom
cantwell@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Jeff Cantwell) (05/08/91)
I talked to a vendor of an object-oriented tool about DDE yesterday, and they said that they were not expecting 3.1 to be released until November (optimistically) and thought it might realistically take as long as 1st quarter '92. One of the reasons cited for the delay was the difficulty in building a "standard DDE interface", which is supposed to be a feature of 3.1. I have no idea how accurate any of this is.
tanida@forseti.css.gov (Tom Tanida) (05/09/91)
In article <1991May8.163832.4315@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>, cantwell@vuse (Jeff Cantwell) writes: >I talked to a vendor of an object-oriented tool about DDE yesterday, >and they said that they were not expecting 3.1 to be released until >November (optimistically) and thought it might realistically take as >long as 1st quarter '92. One of the reasons cited for the delay was >the difficulty in building a "standard DDE interface", which is >supposed to be a feature of 3.1. I have no idea how accurate any of >this is. This sounds reasonable to me. I have a pre-Beta (Alpha?) copy of the Object Linking and Embedding protocol specification (downloadable from Compuserve) dated April 15th or so. This is an interface for inter-process communication based upon the DDE. Looks like MS has some more work to do. Eventually there are supposed to be OLE drivers for all to enjoy and use :-), although MS Excel 3.0 implements OLE directly. -Tom tanida@esosun.css.gov