Pagestream for OS4 Announced with Special Offer

[chris]

I would like to make it clear that the "title of this news" that is "slightly misleading" that you are refering to is from the posting of someone who is not me, nor from our company.

That was me, sorry if it has caused problems.  I'll try to be a bit more careful with my titles in future. :oops:

Chris

[lempkee]

nicoppc:email hyperion to get the info and help , easy as that .


pagestream:thanx for clearing it up!

[NicoPPC]

Why it's not available publicy ?

[lempkee]

Why it's not available publicy ?

i lost your point now , just email hyperion.

[Rodney]

wow this is a step in the right direction. I havnt used a real amiga in ages, or owned one (Besides an 500 and CD32) ... but i've been keeping up, but the lack of good apps has been hampering me seriously considering OS4. It does some what still, but this is a huge Milestone for general users as i see it.

With a decent word processor, i'd actualy think about OS4 as an alternative to linux/windows...

Also, i read an article a while ago saying Microsoft was moving to XML based format for its MSOffice files or maybe one MSWord files... Thats good for us. If MS goes a head with it, other applications such as pagestream and any other word processor, shouldbe able to easily support MS word documents...

things are looking up... especialy if MS goes through with their XML plans

If i was to buy AmigaOS page stream would be  a must buy... i'd assume that would be the same for everyone else!

[mikeymike]

things are looking up... especialy if MS goes through with their XML plans

Only in the premium version of Office (2003?), and even then, as usual, it is bastardised support that doesn't adhere to the standards.

[Rodney]

well that will make it a tad more difficult, but i cant see it being worse than before. Do you know how MS do it? Do they have an xml file and a seperate xsl file? That would be awsome... beyond explaination... you'd then be able to easily format your word documents for any type of media, such as browser, pda, phone etc...

[mikeymike]

but i cant see it being worse than before.

This is MS we're talking about here, right?

[tekmage]

Few comments.

Pagestream is a good page layout program in the same way word is a good word processor.  Word is bad at page layout and pagestream is bad at word processing.  Don't get me wrong, I love PageStream and I'm excited to see they are still kicking given all the market conditions that exsist today.  Hell at Amiwest I bought two copies!  

I'm glad to see they are moving forward with support for OS 4, if they want the money little early of all the companies I think grasshopper has proven them selves trust worthy enought to give them the 40 bucks.

For MOS, wait your turn  I'm sure if Grasshopper feels the 68k amiga version is not sufficient for that platform and they feel the market is large enough I'm 100% sure they will make a MOS native version.  Till then MOS users, Amiga 68k and Amiga OS 4 users will all have access to the same feature set in 4.1, so no worries.

As for "beta" software, and working for the 5th largest pure software company in the world I know what I'm talking about, there are many different ways to handle a beta and lots of factors in choosing which way to do it. MOS has chosen an open beta for the Pegasos platform, seaming closed beta for CSPPC/Blizzard users (has .4 been released?  I don't know).  OS 4 is in a closed beta.  One example of why this might be is supporting beta customers, another thing I know lots about.  Support costs money and time.  If you have a handful of developers working for little money and not much time (most OS 4 developers have day jobs) you don't want to hinder development with hundreds of issues from hundreds of differnet people, to setup a buffer between developers and customers, call it Support, costs money.    The closed beta allows Hyperion to control the amount feedback and to control costs which is very important at this time.

So my 2 cents on "beta", OS 4 is beta, MOS is beta.  MOS is public beta and OS 4 is closed beta.  Simple as that.

Bill "tekmage" Borsari

[iamaboringperson]

It's nice that people are still developing good apps on this platform! :-)