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to: ED NELSON
from: DENNIS JENKINS
date: 1997-03-28 13:43:00
subject: `OUTDATED` SOFTWARE

EN>I'm in enthusiastic agreement with posts supporting the use of "old" 
EN>software 
EN>so long as it does what one needs done.  Can't help the suspicion that 
EN>addition of bells & whistles is often a weak attempt to obsolete earlie
EN>versions to boost sales revenue w/o adding genuinely useful capacities.
EN>result often seems to be bloatware.
EN>But I've got a question in that regard. 
EN>I'm convinced old Express Publisher (2.0!) will handle my needs.  I do,
EN>however, need some steers, so I've been trying to find a relevant BBS o
EN>I-Net mailing list or similar where users might foregather.  Can't find
EN>anything!  
EN>The original publisher was Power Up!  And Power Up! appears now to be 
EN>powerless, indeed non-existent.  Apparently it yielded to something cal
EN>SoftKey International, which I've also been unable to find by e-mail or
EN>otherwise.
I think SoftKey International is where Wordstar went to die too.  It really 
doesn't matter.  Even Microsoft doesn't support their obsolete products.  
Good luck!
DJ
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