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Article #621988Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: Dan Espen
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:35
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:35
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JimP <solo...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:31:32 -0400, Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes: >> >>> JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> After my employer left the caost after Katrina, I apllied for a number >>>> of jobs. Those that wanted a Word document of my resume, all wanted a >>>> different year version of Word to be used. >>>> >>>> I used Open Office and submitted to each of them in the Word format >>>> they wanted. >>>> >>> >>> Wow, that's interesting. What I can't understand, unless it's just poor >>> design and coding, is why they can't make the versions more compatible. If >>> you get a document in a new format and our version doesn't understand, why >>> the heck can't it just do something with it before it gives you the >>> message. In the simplest case, just render it as unformatted text. >>> Upward-compatibility of a kind is not all that difficult to achieve. >> >>A cynical person might think they make the versions slightly >>incompatible to force their clients to upgrade to the latest version. > > One of my devout MS Office users complained about the menus being > rearranged everytime there was an upgrade to it. Again a cynic might think they needed to make visible changes because there was nothing noteworthy in the new release. -- Dan Espen
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