[LINK] Moses: 'How the internet became a closed shop'

[Richard Chirgwin]

On 22/12/12 6:18 PM, Roger Clarke wrote:
> At 18:46 -0800 21/12/12, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>> Suggestion: advise students that the accepted exchange format is
>> Office 97. That is what I do. At least that way, everyone can read
>> the word and excel documents, including OO. It is as easy as
>> "Save As...". Ironic, isn't it, that different versions of MS's own
>> office suite sometimes cannot handle their own document formats. Or
>> sad. Or pathetic.
> Do recent versions of MS Office still read and write Word 6 format?
>
> The v.6 software was probably the worst they ever produced (and there
> was plenty of competition for that tag), but the format appears to
> have been quite clean, and was a lot more reliable than 97 / .doc.
>
It gets the bullet in the next version.

RC