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On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:14:49 -0000 (UTC), "Kerr-Mudd,John"
<nots...@invalid.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 23:48:21 GMT, J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com>
>wrote: 
>
>> On 26 Apr 2018 21:00:45 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>On 2018-04-26, Gareth's Downstairs Computer
>>><headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 26/04/2018 21:09, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 7:50:28 PM UTC-4, J. Clarke wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I can't see anyone in his right mind who has used a modern
>>>>>> spreadsheet wanting to use "an old version of Lotus". It runs
>>>>>> on my current machine just fine, but it's horribly limited.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It does everything my friend needs it to do.  Given that, why
>>>>> should he be forced to upgrade?
>>>
>>>"Better is the enemy of good enough."
>> 
>> How long are companies supposed to support competing products that
>> have not been sold in decades?
>> 
>>>>> My old MS-Word does everything I could ever want in a word
>>>>> processor. But obviously M/S isn't happy about that--they're not
>>>>> getting any new revenue from me.  So by planned obsolescence--which
>>>>> the I.T. community eagerly embraces--I'm forced to upgrade.  Not
>>>>> only that, but I understand the latest word is only licensed, not
>>>>> purchased, so I'll have to pay rent for years.  No more "home
>>>>> version" (e.g. Microsoft Works).  Plus, I don't think my old
>>>>> existing copy of MS-Works will work on a new machine.
>>>
>>>I always loved the idea that "Microsoft Works" was an oxymoron.
>>>Now it seems it's the literal truth.
>> 
>> It takes about 5 clicks to get to the page on the Microsoft site where
>> one can buy (one time purchase) Office Home & Student 2016 for PC for
>> $149.99.
>> 
>> <https://products.office.com/en-us/compare-all-microsoft-office-product
>> s?tab=1> 
>> 
>> Of you can pay 10 bucks a month and get it for installation on up to
>> 15 devices with 5 simultaneous users, 60 minutes a month of free
>> IPPhone service, and a terabyte of cloud storage.
>> 
>>>> Perhaps there is a demand for a thunk, veneer,
>>>> call-it-what-you-will, interface to allow Word 97 to run on latest
>>>> machines? There can't be that many system calls that need to be
>>>> intercepted! 
>>>
>>>How about installing an old version of Windows under VirtualBox?
>>>Sure, it takes a bit of work - but it might be less work than
>>>running on the M$ treadmill.
>> 
>> Yep, Word 97 runs fine in a virtual machine.
>> 
>>>Would LibreOffice work any better?
>> 
>> If it does what you need it's fine.
>> 
>
>What a MS shill.

Why, because I say that if something does what you need then it's
fine?  How does that make one a shill?