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From: Phillip <nntp@fulltermprivacy.com>
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Subject: Re: For The Word Lovers
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 16:21:52 -0500
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On 1/4/25 1:18 PM, Eric Pozharski wrote:
> with <vl9ad1$3vu59$1@dont-email.me> Phillip wrote:
>> On 12/31/24 8:09 PM, rbowman wrote:
> 
>>> https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/?td=rt-3a
>>> Now's your chance to run Word 6.0.
>> IMO Word 6.0 was the last good version of the Word program series.
> 
> (correction) IMHO, 7.0 and 95 (I haven't been exposed to 97 (if that was
> a thing)) are rebranding with possible minor fixes I can't point out.
> So, 95 is last *usable* Word.  That being said...
> 
> *SKIP* [  4 lines   1 level deep]
>> But man, Word 6.0 brings back good memories.
> 
> Like, Doing transfer from paper to file by manual re-typing (yes, 120hpm
> is good enough).  Auto-save skips if you are typing at that moment.
> 50min later -- BAM! CRASH! FSCK! 50min of work went improving The Termal
> Death.  Yeah, good memories.
> 
> p.s.  Yes, LO has crashed on me once, but it was 100page .docx.  Now I
> convert to .odt immediately and live happily ever after.
> 
> p.p.s.  People!  You can ship .odt and nobody notices.  Yes, there might
> be accidents, but GUM (aka The Management) is aware that different
> versions of Word behave differently.  And they are A-OK with this
> because it's Word.
> 

Isn't docx just an MS extended version of OpenDoc specs anyways? I think 
I read that somewhere but I could be wrong. I did try Word 7.0 which was 
fine, but I still preferred 6.0. Sure, it crashed (although for my much 
less then 7.0. I think 7.0 was patched later on but I had already 
returned to Word 6.0).

-- 
Phillip Frabott
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