Re: Windows: insecure by design?

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From: Al Stangenberger (forags_at_nature.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 15:30:54 PDT

And Microsoft even does that to their own data formats! Just a couple of
days ago,
I had to resurrect an old Word document (don't know if it was for DOS, or
WFW 3.11 ..)
Anyhow, my version of Office would not read it, and I had to use a
third-party program
to convert it to a more modern Word format.

-AL Stangenberger

At 03:09 PM 8/27/03 -0700, Lucas Rockwell wrote:

>But if a user wants "100% interoperable with MS Office" then that user
>will forever be a user of MS Office, as no one/no company will *ever* be
>able to duplicate 100% the functionality of Office -- MS could just break
>your software on the next release.

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