Fw: Microsoft caught using a Mac? Say it isn't true.

From: Gina Miller (nanogirl@halcyon.com)
Date: Tue Oct 05 1999 - 19:51:32 MDT


-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber Date: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 5:08 PM
Subject: IP: Microsoft caught using a Mac? Say it isn't true.

>>
>> >From: Peter Langston <psl@langston.com>
>>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 99 11:19:34 -0700
>>
>>
>>As most already know, MS Office files contain headers that convey a
>>reasonable amount of information about the producer of the document. This
>>can have ironic side effects, as witnessed in an analysis of Microsoft's
>>annual report at http://www.macintouch.com/msannual.html.
>>
>>"The file headers indicate that [Microsoft's] annual report was created
>> on a Macintosh
>> and not Windows"
>>
>>
>>The headers also contain the name of the author of the report, who is,
>>I'm sure, having a bad day today.
>
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