On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 08:42, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 02:14, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:46, ALL37@aol.com wrote:
> [snip]
> > Microsoft problems, MS Works is not compatible with MS Word. There is
> > no technical reason why this should be so; it's just a Microsoft device
> > to increase their profits.
>
> I bet there is a technical reason why Works can't read Word & Excel
> files: there are so many different things that you can put in a Word
> doc, for example, (TOC, footnotes, endnotes, images, bibliographies,
> etc) that by the time you gave works the ability to read it, it would
> become Word itself.
Yes, but you would expect Word to be able to read a Works file -- if you
weren't dealing with an unscrupulous monopolist, that is.
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