| ▲ | qcnguy 2 days ago | |
> They literally had things like "save as Word 95" in their office suite. And what do you think that setting did? Forked execution down an alternative no longer maintained codepath instead of the rewritten version that wasn't quite compatible. | ||
| ▲ | happymellon 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Which shouldn't be in an open spec... | ||
| ▲ | troupo 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Ah yes. All the changes made to word just continued to work magically when "forked down an alternative codepath no one knew about". And if that's the case, why was that specified in OOXML? | ||