[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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