[comp.sys.mac.misc] Upgrade Policies in general

wgadsby@gara.une.oz.au (William Gadsby Guest) (07/23/90)

In article <29753.26a33d70@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> ac08@vaxb.acs.unt.edu ((C. Irby)) writes:
>
>You're probably right about the legalities... but most of us in the Mac
>world are pretty tired of having to upgrade Word or Works or Excel every
>time Apple adds something new to the System...
>
>..and you *know* that Word 4 is gonna break bigtime when System 7.0 hits.. :(
>
A sudden wicked thought... Might it be that the infamous non-conformity of
MS software to Mac programming guidelines, resulting in later incompatibility
with system upgrades is/was not unplanned? Planned obsolescence even?
Just a thought...