{"id":133,"date":"2007-04-11T09:58:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T15:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/?p=133"},"modified":"2007-04-11T09:58:45","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T15:58:45","slug":"life-or-death-for-office-98-mort-ou-vie-doffice-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/11\/life-or-death-for-office-98-mort-ou-vie-doffice-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Life or death for Office 98 – Mort ou vie d’Office 98"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t posted here in a little while but the news I found today is – I believe – worth mentioning here.
\n The last issue of MacWorld mentions an internal memo (PDF)<\/a> between Bill Gates and the head of the Mac Business Unit in ’97.
\n From the address where the PDF is hosted, it looks like the memo was released as part of a consumer case in Iowa.
\n The memo is an reply to Bill Gates who was asking whether MS should keep on working on Office 97 for Mac (released later as Office 98) or just call it quits. Ben Waidman, who was then the head of the MacBU, goes through a lengthy explanation telling Bill Gates why he believes Office for Mac had to be finished and released. It looks like the development of Office for Mac was close to being abandoned back then :-\\ Ben Waidman even mentioned “We are creating a good product (perhaps the last one)<\/i>“.<\/p>\n

It appears that things have changed quite a bit since then. Not only was Office 98 released (correcting the awful mistakes of the Word 6 series), but it was followed with 2001, X, 2004 and now 12 or 2008\/9 or whatever name the next version will have \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Je n’avais pas posté sur ce blog depuis quelques temps, mais je suis tombé sur une nouvelle qu’il me semblait était largement digne d’être rapportée ici.
\n Le dernier nuµéro d ela version US de MacWorld mentionne un mémo interne (PDF)<\/a> entre Bill Gates et le patron de la MacBU en ’97.
\n L’adresse du serveur sur lequel se trouve hébergé le PDF laisse à penser qu’il s’agit d’une pièce à conviction dans un procès de consommateurs en Iowa.
\n Le mémo est une réponse à Bill Gates qui demandais si MS devait continuer à développer Office 97 pour Mac (distribué plus tard sous le nom d’Office 98) ou tout simplement abandonner le développement de produits pour Mac. Ben Waidman, qui était à l’époque à la tête de la MacBU, entre dans les détails des arguments pour lesquels il pense qu’Office pour Mac 97\/98 doit être terminé et distribué (le mémo est en anglais évidemment). On dirait que l’on n’est pas passé bien loin… Un détail révélatuer, Ben Waidman mentionne “We are creating a good product (perhaps the last one)<\/i>” (nous sommes en train de développer un bon produit – peut-être le dernier).<\/p>\n

On dirait que les choses ont bien changé depuis. Office 98 a été distribué (en corrigeant nombre des erreurs profondes de la série Word 6, etc), et il a été suivi de 2001, X, 2004 et maintenant 12 ou 2009\/9 ou je-ne-sais-pas-quel-nom-ils-vont-lui-donner \ud83d\ude09<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t posted here in a little while but the news I found today is – I believe – worth mentioning here. The last issue of MacWorld mentions an internal memo (PDF) between Bill Gates and the head of the Mac Business Unit in ’97. From the address where the PDF is hosted, it looks like the memo was released as part of a consumer case in Iowa. The memo is an reply to Bill Gates who was asking whether MS should keep on working…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macms-apps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}