51.   Microsoft agreed that when it makes major software releases, it will offer versions for its Windows operation system and for the Mac simultaneously.

52.   Microsoft is offering four versions of the software to appeal to large and small customers.

53.   Nearly every designer offers a version.

54.   No manual-transmission version will be offered.

55.   Netscape offers a version of its Communicator browser and e-mail software, and IBM announced plans last month to bring its ViaVoice speech-recognition technology to the platform.

56.   Of course, many newsletter publishers had previously turned to another technology to make their information more timely, offering fax versions to their best customers.

57.   Now the original version is being offered to publishers with the deleted passages restored and with illustrations by May Alcott Nieriker.

58.   No veggie versions are offered, although once a vegetarian fair patron brought her own veggie dog to the fair, for Mowiz to batter and fry.

59.   On the West Coast, Gorilla Sports, a health club in San Francisco, offers a version of play time called speed camp.

60.   Other officials offered conflicting versions of the details.