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to: Dave Ings
from: Glenn Meadows
date: 2006-11-05 20:33:20
subject: Re: Microsoft to pull out of China?

From: "Glenn Meadows" 

And I also think that they've stopped further development on it.  The
latest version for X is Office 2004.  There have been a patch/update or
two, but I believe (possibly incorrectly) that there is no further
development going on.

--

Glenn M.
"Dave Ings"  wrote in message
news:454e98a4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I'm probably getting the timeline wrong, but didn't MS make some kind of
> equity investment in Apple and announce the availability of Office on Mac
> around the height of their anti-trust problems? I seem to recall
> speculation that these moves were made to preserve (the illusion of)
> competition in the desktop OS and office suite market segments.
> --
> Regards,
> Dave Ings,
> Toronto, Canada
>
> "/m"  wrote in message
> news:dnsok292lvq59k0lptgrs786okrtg5e27f{at}4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:21:34 +0000, Adam
>> <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge"> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I really think MS Office on OS-X is little more than a checkbox that is
>> used to propagate the false perception that Microsoft supports other
>> OS's.
>>
>

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