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On Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 9:35:38 PM UTC-4, J. Clarke wrote:

> >> However you talk about your "old PC physically works reasonably well
> >> but the software is obsolete and difficult to use for many tasks since
> >> it is no longer compatible".  With what is it not compatible that is
> >> causing you problems?
> >
> >My MS-Word and Internet Explorer have a difficult time today.
> >
> >For instance, I send Word documents to friends.  They could only
> >open it as Read-Only due to the old version.  They could not get
> >around that restriction without going to a lot of trouble.  
> 
> I don't see how that makes the software more difficult to use than it
> was when you first got it.  It makes data interchange more difficult,
> however Word supports a wide range of formats with more added with
> every version.

As mentioned, the latest MS-WORD gives trouble when faced with
a document produced by old versions of WORD.  You can get around
it, but it's a pain.  In some corporate environments, you cannot
get around it due to security restrictions.

In one transfer, the new WORD screwed up the pagination, and I
had to waste time tinkering with the margins and other settings
to get the pages to fit properly for printing.



> 
> >As someone mentioned, I now use plain text files.  But things
> >like italics and boldface get lost.  It's impossible to send
> >a more formal document with headings and pagination.
> 
> I just tried saving a document in RTF format in Word for MS-DOS 5.5.
> Word for MS-DOS can't show formatting except as a color change.  When
> I opened the document with the latest version of Word, it came right
> up with bold, italic, bold italic, and underline right where they were
> supposed to be, looking much better than in Word for MS-DOS.
> 
> There is formatting that can be done with Word that won't carry
> through to an RTF but for basic stuff of this nature it's fine.

Personally, I haven't had good luck with RTF.

 
> >As to the Internet, more and more websites no longer operate
> >on my browser.
> 
> So have you installed Firefox or Chrome?  More and more web sites
> don't work on ANY Microsoft browser you know.

I am seeing fewer and fewer websites working with my PC.
Unfortunately, Firefox didn't run well on my PC.

The reality is that today's computer business does not like
old software or old hardware.  "They" keep introducing
incompatibilities forcing end users to upgrade, even if
their existing machines run just fine in isolation.

I know a fellow who runs an old version of LOTUS.  For himself,
it works just fine.  But he no longer can send his spreadsheets
to anyone else.  At one time Excel was able to read old LOTUS.
No more.