t-billg@microsoft.UUCP (Big Guy) (04/01/91)
A message for the veteran Macintosh user, from the people at Microsoft: Have you felt left out of recent personal computer developments? Does it feel like the advances of the computer world are passing the Macintosh by? You've probably been using the Macintosh for a number of years now. You've gotten used to the idea that a computer doesn't have to have a cumbersome awkward interface based on obscure cryptic commands. And you've grown accustomed to the user interface standard to which all the other user interfaces are compared. An interface that remains consistent across a variety of applications that really do give you the power to be your best. But recently, all the attention seems to have moved away from the Macintosh. Developments in the IBM-PC world have overshadowed the enhancements being made to your favorite computer. Macs are no longer in the spotlight, no longer the leading edge of computing technology that they once were. Or so it seemed to much of the world. Until now. Announcing, at last, a revolutionary new system that gives you even more consistency, compatibility, and capability than you've ever known before. Announcing... Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh Yes, all the power you've come to know on your IBM PC will soon be available on the Macintosh, too. Get all the power and function of Windows applications like Microsoft Word for Windows and Microsoft Excel for Windows, right there on your Macintosh. Now the Macintosh user will come to know what users of Windows on the IBM PC have known for some time now: that a powerful graphical icon-based user interface will give you even more power to be your best than you've ever had before! Prices: ------- Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh $395 (requires 4MB RAM, (comes with Windows for the Mac, hard drive, Toolbook for Windows for the Mac, AppleTalk, plus two exciting applications: Mac IIfx or SE/860, Write/Mac and Paintbrush/Mac) and System 7.0) Microsoft Word for Windows for the Mac $495 (requires 8MB RAM, hard drive, LaserWriter IINT) **upgrade for current word processor users: $129 Microsoft Excel for Windows for the Mac $695 (requires 16MB RAM, hard drive, WinMac TrueType Display Manager XL, System 8.2) **upgrade for current users of anything: $129 Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh (A/UX) $2095 (requires 32MB RAM, A/UX 5.4.3, CD-ROM, WinMac TrueType Display Manager for A/UX, X for Windows for the Mac) Hypercard for Windows for the Macintosh (*) $249 (requires Mac IIux or Mac IIImx with 64MB RAM, 4GB disk drive, WinMac TrueType Display Manager for the Mac or Adobe Display Postscript +) (* - also available: Toolbook for the Macintosh -- includes conversion tool for converting Hypercard stacks into Toolbook applications to run on your new enhanced Mac! Also includes Toolbox Toolbook, Toolbook Toolbox, and extra added Snap-On Tools for tear-off menus.) Availability: ------------- Pending favorable outcome of ongoing legal action between who-knows-who and who-knows-why. Expected release date -- some year with a zero in it. Void where prohibited by lawsuit. Your look and feel may vary. (As a matter of fact, it had better!...)
128a-1ha@web-4e.berkeley.edu (04/01/91)
In article <AAprf001491b@microsoft.UUCP> t-billg@microsoft.UUCP (Big Guy) writes: ... > >Announcing, at last, a revolutionary new system that gives you even more >consistency, compatibility, and capability than you've ever known before. > >Announcing... > > > Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh > ... What is this? The first april fools joke.. Nelson 128a-1ha@web.berkeley.edu
chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach, net.god {retired}) (04/02/91)
128a-1ha@web-4e.berkeley.edu writes: >What is this? The first april fools joke.. Actually, the third that I've seen so far... -- Chuq Von Rospach >=< chuq@apple.com >=< GEnie: CHUQ >=< AppleLink: CHUQ SFWA Nebula Awards Reports Editor =+= Editor, OtherRealms Book Reviewer, Amazing Stories ---@--- #include <standard/disclaimer.h> Recommended reading: BONE DANCE by Emma Bull; BLIND JUSTICE by S.N. Lewitt; SCIENCE FICTION IN THE REAL WORLD by Norman Spinrad
jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson ) (04/02/91)
requres
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...Mac IIfx or SE/860
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I would say so .
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-george george@mech.seas.upenn.eduaaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) (04/02/91)
In article <1991Apr1.061348.2511@agate.berkeley.edu> 128a-1ha@web-4e.berkeley.edu () writes: >In article <AAprf001491b@microsoft.UUCP> t-billg@microsoft.UUCP (Big Guy) writes: >... >> >>Announcing, at last, a revolutionary new system that gives you even more >>consistency, compatibility, and capability than you've ever known before. >> >>Announcing... >> >> >> Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh >> >... > >What is this? The first april fools joke.. > >Nelson >128a-1ha@web.berkeley.edu Well, it is and it isn't. 1: There was a recent article in MacWeak or whatever that talked about the Microsoft Mac. It ends up that MS has had a lot of influence on the Mac software world; most recently, with regards to porting OLE to the Mac. Any owners of Excel 3 will note that the Functions and Macros ref. is the same for the future Mac version, and thus will have functions like DDE.POKE and such. The question is: since MS is the biggest Mac software maker, will its standards become Mac standards? 2: It's well-known that OS/2 3.xx (portable OS/2, a/k/a Portable Windows) is being ported to the 680xx architecture, esp. the Mac. Rumors of versions of OS/2 running on Mac IIs have been reported. Since the future of OS/2 and Windows in MS's eyes are the same, if OS/2 3.xx ever hatches for the Mac, you'll have Windows for the Mac. Of course, Apple has hinted at porting HokeyFinder to Intel machines as well, and CP/M once ran on them all... Actually, the first half of the "joke," about the Mac world being "left out," sounded authentic enough... :-) Aaron Wallace
mholtz@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark A. Holtz) (04/02/91)
In article <1991Apr1.061348.2511@agate.berkeley.edu>, 128a-1ha@web-4e.berkeley.edu writes: > In article <AAprf001491b@microsoft.UUCP> t-billg@microsoft.UUCP (Big Guy) writes: > What is this? The first april fools joke.. Check the first part of the message header: AAprf001 -> April Fool -- Wish list of items: /\ UUCP: ames att!pacbell! \ * Unix Box with Hard Drive \/ pyramid sun!pacbell! -=> sactoh0!mholtz * 9600 Baud V.32/V.42 Modem /\ ucbvax!csusac! / * A much-needed vacation \/ INTERNET: mholtz@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US
gort@cup.portal.com (george d harrington) (04/02/91)
Re: tbill_g's announcement of Windows for Mac.
I'm still holding out for Topview for Mac, the graphical user
interface from IBM that will no doubt become the future
standard interface for ALL machines.
gort@cup.portal.combreidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach) (04/04/91)
to the people at microsoft: Once again, you've done it! That makes me unhappy mac user seeing light at the end of the tunnel... After all these years of fighting with these nasty little mac programs, which keep you from all the fun of fiddleling with zillions of different configurations, we finally have the long awaited apocalypse coming closer... God bless you! BUT: How about the recent versions of ms Word and Excel for the mac? Is there a downgrade available? How much will you pay us for it? But anyway, have fun and keep on the right PATH. (i.e. C:\MAC) :-) Oliver. Disclaimer: For those, whose sense of humor is limited: This is NOT a flame, neither a political or personal statement of any, but satirical kind. :-)