RE: Some Commonsense re: MS/Corel Alliance

[Mike Adams <Mike_Adams -at- summithq -dot- com>]

Sorry to disappoint you:

http://x64.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=663533714&CONTEXT=970678430.98828312&hitnum
=4

I noticed your name at the bottom of her post. The fact that there is a long
workaround doesn't make it "okay." That makes it advanced hoseology. It
should be seamless. M$ also has a habit of changing RTF soon after competing
products release to make the competing products filters inadequate for
importing anything from Office products. It's simply another case of their
business practices. As for FUD, who am I to FUD the masters?

Let's not do the flame war bit today. Maybe Friday ;-)

Cheers,

Mike.


Susan posted this in August:

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 Subject:
       RE: Needed: Visio Expertise
 Date:
       08/28/2000
 Author:
       "Susan Ahrenhold" <sahrenhold -at- winspc -dot- com>


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 Thanks for taking the time, Peter.
  
 Actually, this problem occurred because the option referred to in the help
files was greyed out.
 We called Microsoft tech support for $35.00 this am and got the exciting
news that there were so many changes in Visio 6 that
 Visio 5 documents cannot be upgraded. The workarounds they proposed all do
not work in our environment (although they do
 under many other circumstances), so we are recreating our document from an
external database. It will take about 2 weeks, but
 at least we will be in the version we need to be in, with hooks now built
in for the future.
  
  
 |From the "help" file.
  
 Add Attributes dialog box options
 Adds one or more attributes to the Search These Attributes list on the
Advanced tab.
  
 Click an option bullet for more information.
  
 Attributes
 Type the attribute you want to add. If you enter more than one
 attribute, separate the attributes with commas. For example, type DATA,
DYNSRC.
  
 Tell me about...
  
 Web site maps
  
 I can well understand your confusion. since I just started playing with it,
I cannot go into more detail, but perhaps this will get you
 started. 
  
  
 --
 Peter
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter [mailto:pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 12:43 PM
To: Mike Adams
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Some Commonsense re: MS/Corel Alliance


Mike Adams wrote:
> 
> Hehhe... yeah, yeah.... See how great it is once they start changing the
> file formats and you can't work with old stuff anymore (re RTF, Visio
2000,
> etc.).
> 

Exactly where have you heard that is going to happen. All indicators
(history, tradition, commitment to maintain that tradition from
engineering, not marketing,) are contrary to your snicker. Please don't
post FUD here unless you can prove it. 
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