[X Newbies] expired MS office trial

[Alex]

On Saturday, Jan 24, 2004, at 14:48 Canada/Eastern, Bruce Klutchko 
wrote:

> [...] OS X has been out for quite some time and Office X still
>  does not allow using services.

For "Office X" subsitute AppleWorks, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, 
etc....

> Given the resources of Microsoft, it is sad that the Mac cannot get a 
> suite
> of applications from them written in a truly native development system.

Sure. And, for "Microsoft", also substitute Adobe, Apple... That's how 
the cookie crumbles, I'm afraid. Basically, when only part of a 5% 
market uses a technology, there's no incentive to invest in a complete 
rewriting of a major application. Since you're apparently using Nisus 
Writer Express, perhaps you can acquaint us with its history and how 
difficult Nisus found porting its app to Cocoa -- so difficult, in 
fact, that it gave up and bough Okito Composer, instead...

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