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On 16/02/14 22:39, Eion MacDonald wrote: > > > On 16/02/2014 22:28, Mark Evans wrote: >> What's a "lifetime corporate Windows user" anyway? It simply hasn't >> been around long enough for people near retirement to have been >> using it for their entire working life > > "Their lifetime since using computers" = "lifetime corporate Windows > user" for the average office s/he. > Only accounts folk had experience of computers before 'personal > computers' on each desk. However the first "office applications" were the likes of Wordperfect, Wordstar, Visicalc, Lotus 1-2-3, Multiplan (the only Microsoft product). The IBM PC (with MSDOS) wasn't the first "business PC" either. Even MacWrite preceded MS Word.
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