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Subject:Re: Why not Word97? From:HBacheler -at- aol -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:30:26 EST
In a message dated 01/07/2005 05:19:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jwest -at- mvps -dot- org writes:
Quote:
The file format substantially changed when they moved from Word 95 to Word
97. The Word 6/95 binary file format was freely published, but the Word 97 &
later file format is only licensed to Government, "qualified customers" or
qualified ISVs.
Unquote
And what a brouhaha that caused because WordPerfect ceased to be compatible
with MS Word.
I believe shortly after that, that MS released Word 7 which restored 'some'
compatibility.
It might also be about the time the they (MS) created some converters for
the different word processors.
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