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Microsoft Word has become the most popular word processor for the Macintosh and for PCs running Windows by being both a good writing tool and a user-friendly program...
...Word for Windows (WFW) user, you may have been a little surprised to learn that the new WFW carries version number 6 while the one you own is version 2.0. In fact, there are no WFW versions 3 or 4 or 5, and it's not because the marketing folks at Microsoft can't count...
...complete installation of WFW 6.0, which includes the word processing program, document proofing tools such as a dictionary and a thesaurus, extensive on-line help and utilities that allow the user to draw simple graphs and mathematical equations, consumes almost 30 megabytes (MB) of hard disk space. The Word program itself is nearly six megabytes, almost three times the size of the previous version...
...abatements are not an entirely new phenomenon. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s some states and a few municipalities hit upon the idea that they could encourage local businesses to expand by offering a partial rebate of additional property taxes or user fees that such an expansion might incur...
...groups labeled, according to the Net's idiosyncratic cataloging system, alt.sex.masturbation, alt.sex.bondage and alt.sex.fetish.feet. On Internet Relay Chat, a global 24-hour-a-day message board, one can stumble upon imaginary orgies played out with one-line typed commands ("Now I'm taking off your shirt . . ."). In alt.binaries.pictures.erotica, a user can peek at snapshots that would make a sailor blush...