On 6/18/02 6:03 PM, "Thomas Schierle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2002-06-18 17:32 +0200, Paul Berkowitz wrote: > >> What got my goat was that Gordon was presuming to insult the people who went >> to all the trouble to improve Office X _instead of_ asking a question, such >> as >> "Have those poor address book and mail merge features in Word 2001 been >> improved at all in Office X?" > > Huh -- currently I use Office 2001 -- If I were to complain, why should > I first check a release not available for my platform??? No, Thomas. Go back and read Gordon's message. He said that he also has Office X on his iBook and that the same thing applied there (which is not true). He was complaining that it was a problem in both versions (which it isn't - not in X, only in 2001). We've all cooled down since them as you'll probably have seen by now if you've now read the whole thread. > > I believe the standard answer "this is fixed for Office X, and we don't > know if there will be a bugfix release for 2001 containing that patch ..." > would far better apply than rants. Note, OS X users are a minority till > date, and especially the pros probably will be the last ones to upgrade > because they aren't permitted to choose OS up to their liking. You're out of date, Thomas. Microsoft has definitively announced that there will be no more development of any of their Classic products, only OS X products. They did say that they would continue to put out Security Updates as needed. While they may include the occasional bug fix, I think you can be fairly certain that such little bug fixes will not ever include major new features such as the new mail merge features in Entourage X. The two gaps which Gordon was criticizing, rightly, in Entourage 2001 are not programming bugs - they were limited (poor, IMO) implementations. Not bugs. You won't be seeing those features in E2001. The future is only in OS X. Actually, the enhanced present is only in OS X. I don't know that anyone has statistics on the numbers of Mac users currently using OS 8/9 vs. X, but the way forward is X. For a major company like MS to announce the end of development in 9 is the best support that Apple (who are doing the same thing) could get. "Classic" development is ending everywhere. If you're happy with your classic software and don't want to move on, that's great. But if you want updates, you'll have to move to X. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
