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From: | scott AT yarbus DOT dgbt DOT doc DOT ca (Scott Aitchison) |
Newsgroups: | comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.os2.programmer.misc |
Subject: | Re: FreeWin95 Project |
Date: | 13 Feb 1997 13:58:21 GMT |
Organization: | The Communications Research Centre |
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In article <33023654 DOT 10CF AT autodesk DOT com>, Daniel Yu <daniel DOT yu AT autodesk DOT com> writes: |> If memory serves, Word for Windows jumped from v2 to v5 because MS was |> trying to synch version numbers between it and Word for Mac, which was |> on v4. Not a great reason for version numbering, admittedly. But there |> was a reason. |> Yeah, whatever. Word for Windows jumped to v6 (there was no version 5) to sync up with WordPerfect, which was at 6 at the same time. It was a psychological thing. Most people would tend to buy a product with a higher version number. -- ------------------------------+------------------------------------- Scott Aitchison | scott AT yarbus DOT dgbt DOT doc DOT ca Programmer Analyst | seaitchi AT undergrad DOT math DOT uwaterloo DOT ca Communications Research Centre| Human Visual Communication Lab| ------------------------------+-------------------------------------
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