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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:53:57 -0400, HK wrote:

Usually the "improvement" is meaningless and only done to force
obsolecence of the older OS (like the DOCX file)

If the improvements are "meaningless," then why worry about backwards
compatibility?

Because you don't generate everything you might want to see.
The people on the bleeding edge drag everyone else into the morass
if we want to share data with them.

It is not just Microsoft, adobe is the same way. There are now PDFs
all over the internet that you can't open with a version of the reader
that runs on W98, yet it is still just a picture of a page. Where is
the increased value ... other than making software companies a little
richer.

Well, perhaps the creators of those .PDFs liked the additional features
available with the later editions. FOXIT is a pretty good .PDF reader,
free, contemporary, and it runs on Win 98:

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

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