>Mike,
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>>> I started Word 97 immediately after its release and it was a nightmare.
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>> You were lucky! Word 3.0 shipped with over 300 known defects.
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>Which is probably 100 times less defects than the first release of Word 97... Please note that most problems were resolved by SR-1 and SR-2 and we found workarounds to all our problems except for an intermittent link breakage in mail merge main documents...
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>Nothing beats the first release of Descent and Lords of Magic, two games which would crash every five minutes unless you installed the downloadable patches that were available before the CDs hit the stores...
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>Daniel

Daniel;

Crashing every five minutes - where have I experienced that? Oh yes! VFP 3.0 and Windows 3.11! :)

Tom