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to: Geo
from: Don Hills
date: 2006-02-17 17:06:18
subject: Re: Office without Outlook?

From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Geo"  wrote:
>
>The only 2 pieces of Office I use to any extent are Excel and Outlook, why
>would they unbundle Outlook for the cheap version? Get rid of Access and
>Powerpoint.

Is that a trick question? More people use Outlook than Access and
Powerpoint. Unbundling Outlook forces a purchase of both Office and Outlook
at a higher overall expenditure.

(Yeah, I know there's more to the story than that, but I'm feeling cynical.)

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