Yeah, Office 10 is a stupid name but I've sure microsoft realized that if they are going to have new versions as often as they do that the 2000 scheme wont work..."Office 2001", "Office 2001.5", etc. errr... wait, is that a service pack or an upgrade...or both...or neither...hell i cant tell anymore.... I've been preaching the software subscription thing for big products like office (anything that sells for more than $100) for years. I'll never pay full price because it will be obsolete too soon. This is a better model for a product with a stupid name. I bought VC++4.0 years ago with my hard earned cash and by the time I got around to using it VC++5.0 was out. That time around I "borrowed" a copy (I wasnt gonna throw my money away again) and I went out and bought the big-ass 4 volume set of book for VC++5.0. By the time I got around to using that VC++6.0 was out so my books were pretty much useless. I gave up. Its a neverending cycle and software companies need to do something about it. I went to coding in Linux, less of a headache to keep up with the programming feature updates...and they're free. At 01:27 AM 11/21/00 -0600, you wrote: >Ok, I sure wish I could have been at the party the night before the >sales/marketing dorks at Microsoft came up with Office 10. > >They MUST have been totally buzzed in the morning (STILL!) to push this software >model. > >Sheesh. > >http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/press/2000/Nov00/SubscriptionPR.asp > >-- >Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (612)943-8700 >http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (612)943-8500 >Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at lists.real-time.com >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >