On 15 May 2002, 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. > > This is why SO6/OO6 can render .doc files better than AbiWord. > > A variation on a standard aphorism: > Small, Fast, Featureful. Pick any 2.
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