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Mark Bystry
SuSE 9.3 Pro
KDE 3.4.0


Andrew Thompson wrote the following on 5/11/2005 2:48 AM:
> On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 09:56, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 
>>>>IE6 runs on SuSe 9.3 with the stock Wine package.  As does Power Point,
>>>>Word, and Media Player 7.  Excel has some issues saving files (wouldn't
>>>>all the apps in a suite use the same I/O framework... wierd).
>>>
>>>Got to remember that each Office app originally developed on its own and
>>>they were later cobbled together (typical M$).
>>
>>Surely by now they must have been rewritten;  I mean they've moved from
>>M$-DOS, to Win16, to Win32.  I'd be shocked if they were internally
>>really so fractured;  but then again....
> 
> 
> Yeah, right. That's why Excel still uses MS Query to pull from external
> databases, which STILL chokes on even the simplest SQL. Meanwhile, its
> "successor," the OLE DB connection, won't pass parameters. Talk about
> split-brain personality. Ten years' time to fix and polish ONE tool, and
> they give us TWO as broken as the first was from the start!
>