Re: A bit of OT advice :o)
- From: real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell)
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:42:33 +0100
Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:
Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:<huge snip>
real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:
Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:
Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Owain <owain47125@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The first version of MS Word was written for the Mac, and when MS
changed Word so that both the Windoze and Mac versions used the same
file format, they chose the Mac format as the standard. Even now, the
Mac version of MS Office is much nicer than the Windoze version -
according to my wife, who uses both.
Rowland.
I'm sorry but all that is too complicated for me atm :o(
No it's not.
You know MS Word, the program? Yeah? Right.
You know doc files, that MS Word creates? Yeah? Right.
Well, the stuff inside the doc files is your document - saved in the
form of lots and lots of numbers. The particular way in which the
numbers are interpreted by MS Word when you open the file is called the
file format.
The first version of MS Word that existed was written by MS for Macs,
not MS-DOS or Windoze. It used a particular file format.
MS then came out with Windoze, and then released MS Word for Windoze.
That used a file format incompatible with the files saved by the Mac
version - Mac MS Word files could not be opened by Windoze version of MS
Word, and vice-versa[1].
MS decided this was stupid, and made both file formats the same - and
chose the file format it had developed for Macs as the `one file format
for both Macs and Windoze'.
That's part one.
Part two is that the Macintosh version of MS Office is always a bit more
advanced than the Windoze version - the Macintosh business unit inside
MS is where all the snazzy developments come from that are fed into the
Windoze side of the business. And people in the MacBU get to use iPods,
which no-one else inside MS can get away with so they're apparently
mega-smug for all sorts of reasons.
MS really *NEEDS* Apple - it's got to have Macs so that it can have
something to develop good software on, and then transfer it (in slightly
less good form) to its own operating system. It's why Apple got rescued
from going bust by Microsoft back in the 1990s - a fact which is largely
forgotten these days. Microsoft doesn't view Apple as a competitor.
Rowland.
[1] Which is what RTF was for. Save in RTF, and you can move between
machines. But RTF did not save all aspects of your original file, so
was a bit pants.
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