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asveikau 4 hours ago

> Microsoft 30 years ago was the gold standard for bending over backwards for backward compatibility

And for reselling you the same office suite every couple of years.

(Full disclosure, I worked there in the 2000s... So if anything I should be biased the other way.)

mghackerlady 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Right, but if you bought office 2000 it was established that you would get to keep using office 2000 for as long as you wanted

asveikau 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Correct, but my point was if they had taken measures to counteract that nobody would have been surprised.

userbinator 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There are probably still a minority using Office 2000 out there, because it still does everything they need.

mghackerlady 2 hours ago | parent [-]

For a while I had installed in wine for frontpage