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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." John 14:1
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