Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:29:13AM +0300, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > >> To expand on it a bit, ODT or ISO/IEC 26300:2006, "OASIS Open Document >> Format for Office Applications" is the only international standard for >> office documents. It is unlikely that documents not complying with this >> standard will be readable in 20 years. >> >> For simple content it might be possible to use HTML. >> >> The chances of Microsoft Word2003 documents being readable five years from >> now is not good. > > I disagree. I think MS Word documents will be readable for a long time > because people want them to be. A better argument would be all of those > Hebrew word processing programs that were popular in the 1980's that > no one has a copy of.
Just me or today you can't read your documents which have been saved in word 6 format? (and I some documents I wrote for high schools which I care about) Microsoft doesn't support that in current versions... p.s. FYI, OO.org does support that format. -- Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
