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18/08/2000 08:36:17
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Title:
Miscellaneous
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00406579
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And with MS way of naming software, one would assume that Windows 2000 is the next version of Windows 98!

BTW, before Windows 98 came out, we had several clients as us if we had Windows 97 (ninety seven) in stock. Of course, we told them that there was no such thing, only Windows 95 and Windows 98 wasn't released yet. However, those same clients insisted that they had Windows 97 at the job!

We managed to find out that when they started Word, the splash screen said Word 97, so to them it was Windows 97.



>Sooo....what's in a name........
>
>First, let's look at this strange application, Outlook Express. It is not Outlook, nor is it particularly fast. It cannot be automated, manipulated, instantiated or ANY OTHER -ated directly from VFP.
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>Folks, you are being misled by the name. People see "Outlook Express" on their machines and assume they have Outlook. These same folks see WordPad on their machines but know they don't have Word...what's the difference in thought processes here?
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>Outlook Express is NOT Outlook; WordPad is NOT Word; Notepad is NOT Lotus Notes........
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>Outlook Express is, at best, a bubblegum and bailing wire email tool and newsgroup reader.
Sylvain Demers
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