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Ian Malcolm

wrote:

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:10:34 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:43:11 -0500, wrote:

If your usage doesn't change, why should you buy new software?.

Exactly. It's like buying a new car because the style changed.

Well, not exactly. One reason for buying new software is so that you can
continue to be a peer with the rest of the world. If you have windows 95 and IE4
or 5, you are limited to where you can go and what you can do on the internet.
Word 6 isn't going to open the majority of word documents you encounter, and
Lotus123... Well, you may as well do your financial work on a paper bag with a
pencil like my local farmers kids do it when I shop at the farm stand.

A 1946 Chevy CK pickup truck can drive anywhere a 2008 Escalade can drive.

Word 6 with the Word 97 import converter (wrd97cnv.exe) opens 99% of the
word documents I need to handle. Haven't had any complaints from
recipients if I send them back a Word 6 document either. Word Viewer
handles the few that wrd97conv mangles. Only clueless ****wits send out
documents in post Word 97 formats *without* checking the recipient can
handle them.

As for the net, well who out of the retro PC users is going to admit to
running Internet Exploder? :-)

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