On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:20:46AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > How did M$'s proprietary Office file formats every break anyone's > system overnight? Not quite that, but more than once they changed the formats between successive versions of Word etc. so the old program couldn't read files created by the new one. After a while people with the old version would get fed up with receiving Word documents that they couldn't read, so they upgraded. I've seen it happen myself, and I've heard a story of a managing director being send a complimentary copy af a new version, and then the whole company spending thousands on a needless upgrade so the rest of them could read the boss's office memos. I'm not familiar with the Wine memory management story. Doesn't look good, though I still haven't quite understood the details. -- Anahata anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+- http://www.treewind.co.uk Home: 01638 720444 Mob: 07976 263827
