Re: For The Word Lovers

with <vlc8pg$gkha$1@dont-email.me> Phillip wrote:

On 1/4/25 1:18 PM, Eric Pozharski wrote:

with <vl9ad1$3vu59$1@dont-email.me> Phillip wrote:

On 12/31/24 8:09 PM, rbowman wrote:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/?td=rt-3a
Now's your chance to run Word 6.0.

IMO Word 6.0 was the last good version of the Word program series.

(correction) IMHO, 7.0 and 95 (I haven't been exposed to 97 (if that was
a thing)) are rebranding with possible minor fixes I can't point out.
So, 95 is last *usable* Word.  That being said...

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p.p.s.  People!  You can ship .odt and nobody notices.  Yes, there
might be accidents, but GUM (aka The Management) is aware that
different versions of Word behave differently.  And they are A-OK
with this because it's Word.

Isn't docx just an MS extended version of OpenDoc specs anyways?

Well, I'm not immersed, I can neither confirm nor deny.

I think I read that somewhere but I could be wrong.

I was exposed in more or less this order W6 (touched W2-fDos and
W4-fDos: touched only, because it failed to do anything useful from
getgo), then W7, then W95.  Then it was OOo (something really ancient).
And then I was exposed to some modern Word.

Again, I'm not immersed (when I need typesetting (and I did some crazy
staff) I have latex, specifically koma-script), but I have questions
now.

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