[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[JF Mezei]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> And MS supply free readers for doc/xls/ppt as well.

Do they still do that ?

They came out with some funky new word format (pretends to be XML, but
it is unreadable binary junk). To read one such document, I had to
download some converter from Microsoft which would then create a new
file which could be read.