Re: no Java in XP Windows

[Neil Palmer <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Steve, Steve !

It's obvious the reason Excel was a success was because employees could 
while away hours of their employers time playing with the hidden "flight 
simulator" program and reading the Excel credits scrolling up the giant 
monolith !    ;-)

...Neil





"Steve Richter" <srichter@AutoCoder.com>
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2001/07/19 01:22
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Chris,

You say ms does not innovate.  Here is an example of how they have.

Why was excel and word accepted in the office in favor of 123 and wp? Imo,
one of the primary reasons was because they enabled a programming language
to control excel word and access. Visual basic for applications was made 
the
macro language. COM was developed to enable automation from vc++.

About 8 yrs ago I wrote vb code in excel and appc code in c++ that 
provided
a real time connection between an excel spreadsheet with the as400 
database.
As soon as a part# was entered in a cell, the desc of the part was 
retrieved
from the as400 and placed in an adjacent cell.

I doubt if I can do that in 123 even today.

I recognize excellence where ever I see it. Maybe if rochester allowed its
developers to make as much money as the ms developers do, we would get the
innovation we need on our platform that we will need in the yrs to come.

Steve Richter





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