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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00bbcdf4$0$23699$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 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.

   They only provided a converter to use their own products to read
   those formats.

   OBTW, a .docx file is actually a zip with a .doc file and some other
   junk inside.  So you don't really need a converter if you can read
   a .doc file.