Subject: Re: (Fwd) (SC22docs.449) SC22 N2669 - SC22 Chairman Report on JTC

From: Michael Everson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 16:45:35 +0100

Somebody said:

>I wondered about that too, but, while the basic formats are the
>same, Word 7 (known officially as "Microsoft Word for Windows
>95" will sometimes insert controls that Word 6 does not
>understand (this is, of course, undocumented).  And Word 6
>processors will respond to at least some of those Word 7
>controls with a magnificant "error message" that starts out
>"General Protection Fault...".  So banning it, or forcing
>explicit Word 6 downgrading is perhaps rational.

I have never understood how it can be that software like this can possibly
be as popular as it seems to be. No one would buy a car built like this.

Michael Everson