Re: COMPATIBILITY

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"John McGhie" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C50665E2.19887%john@xxxxxxxxxxx:
> As to the reason why Microsoft changed from .doc to .docx - it wasn't
> because Microsoft thought that .docx is a better file format. They know
> it in many ways it is not.

Well! That's certainly an alternative view :-) I would have thought
"Smaller, more robust, more powerful, more flexible, and non-proprietary"
might have registered on somebody's meter :-)

I certainly like it better.



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