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It's been a while since Microsoft announced that they were adding a slew of Mac programmers to do things right-- no more half-assed ports like Word 6.0 for the Mac, which may go down in history as the bloated, slow, and buggy software joke of the decade. (Heck, even Microsoft knows that 5.1a is better; you can still buy it from them-- for $30 more than they charge for 6.0.) So far, we Mac folk haven't really seen any benefit from that action.

Until next week. That's when Microsoft unveils Office 98 for the Mac, which, by all accounts, makes the current Mac version of Office look like... well, like a really bad port of mediocre software from an inferior operating system. Don Crabb's review in the Chicago Sun Times (whose dead-tree incarnation we just happen to have in front of us) confirms that the Mac-built suite is no "half-baked Windows port," and that it includes features that the Windows version will lack, like drag-and-drop installation. Though, since the Windows version isn't due out for a few more months at least, I guess that all remains to be seen.

One minor bummer: Mac Office 98 lacks the database program Access, but being diehard Filemaker buffs, we're not too upset. And between Office 98 and Internet Explorer 4.0 (also to be unveiled next week), it appears that Microsoft just might be a real Mac software developer after all. AtAT's PowerTower Pro will remain Microsoft-free, however, at least until the final verdict is in... and probably longer.

 
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From the writer/creator of AtAT, a Pandemic Dad Joke taken WAYYYYYY too far

 

The above scene was taken from the 1/3/98 episode:

January 3, 1998: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 324: Jobs: The Ego Thing (1/3/98)   Remember those rumors a couple of months ago that Steve Jobs was so incredibly frustrated with trying to save Apple that he was thinking of quitting? Some rumors went so far as to say that Steve had been clearing out his desk when Larry Ellison persuaded him to stay...

  • 325: Artemis: Plastic Surgery (1/3/98)   MacNN's Reality has some more news on the upcoming "Artemis" Powermacs. Perhaps you recall that Artemis was to be Apple's new low-end, consumer/education model with an all-in-one design similar in concept to the Powermac 5000 series, or its 680x0 precursor the LC 5xx...

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