[KLUG Members] Web devel

Adam Tauno Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Tue May 10 09:56:11 EDT 2005


> > IE6 runs on SuSe 9.3 with the stock Wine package.  As does Power Point,
> > Word, and Media Player 7.  Excel has some issues saving files (wouldn't
> > all the apps in a suite use the same I/O framework... wierd).
> Got to remember that each Office app originally developed on its own and
> they were later cobbled together (typical M$).

Surely by now they must have been rewritten;  I mean they've moved from
M$-DOS, to Win16, to Win32.  I'd be shocked if they were internally
really so fractured;  but then again....

Remember Word4 for DOS (what a HORRIBLE product), is it really possible
that a single line of that code still exists in the Word XP?

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