You said "Gates." My license tag frame says, "Avoid the Gates of
Hell, use Linux."
I thought ya'll might enjoy that.
/mario
>A microsoft developer has told me that ms habitually breaks formats from
>version to version; an earlier version of an app cannot open a file produced
>by the successive version. They want their suckers, I mean customers, to
>stroll through the Gates, down the garden path of forced upgrade.
>Smitty
>
>On Thursday 24 October 2002 18:07, you wrote:
>> A bit off subject but I'll share it anyway.
>>
>> My boss sent me a microsoft word document today and when I started
>> microsoft word 2000 and attempted to open the file it responded with a
>> message something to the effect of invalid document and/or invalid name
>> and gave me a blank document. Double checked the name and it was ok.
>> Changed the name and tried again -- same thing. Word just couldn't do a
>> thing with that .doc file.
>>
>> I copied the .doc to my laptop (running Linux) and started StarOffice
>> 6.0. It opened the .doc just fine -- no problems. I haven't laughed
>> that hard in a long time! I did my work using StarOffice and went about
>> my business.
>>
>> I shared the fun with the rest of the office and now I shared it with
>> you all.
>>
>> Ed.
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