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From: John Whitworth on 14 Jun 2010 14:05 "dave" <davenpat(a)btopenowrld.com> wrote in message news:L4adnaOtkYB6y4vRnZ2dnUVZ8qSdnZ2d(a)bt.com... > On 14/06/2010 11:09, John Whitworth wrote: >> >> >> "Huge" <Huge(a)nowhere.much.invalid> wrote in message >> news:87mcckF676U4(a)mid.individual.net... >>> On 2010-06-14, Roger Mills <watt.tyler(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> It's presumably got something to do with sharing and file privileges >>>> etc., but why should Word (and other Office 2000 applications) behave >>>> differently from (say) Quicken in this respect? Any ideas? >>> >>> Because Microsoft are incompetent scum? >> >> Useful...give yourself a pat on the back. > > But he hit the nail right on the head though. He didn't really, did he? He just came out with the usual "I really do not have a clue about computers or software development - lets blame everything on Microsoft" argument. The nail sits with a file handling issue, which shows it's ugly head when using virtualisation - something which didn't exist in that form in 1999/2000 (Connectix Virtual PC 4 came about in 2001).
From: Bob Eager on 14 Jun 2010 15:23 On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:41:12 +0100, Roger Mills wrote: > Are you sure you don't mean Word 2007? AFAIK, all versions of word from > 97 through 2003 used the same format - but 2007 defaults to docx format. > nevertheless, it's a trivial matter to tell it to save in 97-2003 format > - then everyone should be able to receive it. More to the point, there's an easy to install add-on for 2003 that allows it to handle the 2007 formats... -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor
From: geoff on 14 Jun 2010 16:19 In message <hv526m$vkv$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> writes >In news:87mfmsF676U7(a)mid.individual.net, >Huge typed on 14 Jun 2010 10:47:57 GMT: >> On 2010-06-14, John Whitworth >> wrote: >>> >>> "Huge" <Huge(a)nowhere.much.invalid> wrote in message >>> news:87mcckF676U4(a)mid.individual.net... >>>> On 2010-06-14, Roger Mills <watt.tyler(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> It's presumably got something to do with sharing and file >>>>> privileges etc., but why should Word (and other Office 2000 >>>>> applications) behave differently from (say) Quicken in this >>>>> respect? Any ideas? >>>> >>>> Because Microsoft are incompetent scum? >>> >>> Useful... >> >> Really? It wasn't intended to be. In the same way that what is likely >> happening is that MS don't want you to be able to do what the OP >> wants - they want you to buy another copy of Office for the host >> machine. Although this is only a guess, based on years of experience >> of watching people empty >> their wallets into Bill Gates bank account. >> >>> give yourself a pat on the back. >> >> Thanks, but there's no need. > >Really? I bought MS Office 97 and MS Office 2000 and I stopped there. I >had to upgrade from MSO 97 because it had too many bugs that MSO 2000 >fixed. I felt no reason to get the later versions as MS Office 2000 >works just fine for me. > >I do regret buying two copies of Windows 7 that still sit up on the >shelf unopened. As I was running two copies of Windows 7 Ultimate RC for >about a year and I was unimpressed with it. > Better send one to me then -- geoff
From: Roger Mills on 14 Jun 2010 17:40 On 14/06/2010 19:05, John Whitworth wrote: > > The nail sits with a file handling > issue, which shows it's ugly head when using virtualisation - something > which didn't exist in that form in 1999/2000 (Connectix Virtual PC 4 > came about in 2001). True. having said that, though, some applications (such as Quicken) - which were also developed before virtualisation was around - *don't* have a file handling issue. Strange! -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.
From: BillW50 on 14 Jun 2010 18:08
In news:87nluiFc6lU1(a)mid.individual.net, Roger Mills typed on Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:40:34 +0100: > On 14/06/2010 19:05, John Whitworth wrote: >> >> The nail sits with a file handling >> issue, which shows it's ugly head when using virtualisation - >> something which didn't exist in that form in 1999/2000 (Connectix >> Virtual PC 4 came about in 2001). > > True. having said that, though, some applications (such as Quicken) - > which were also developed before virtualisation was around - *don't* > have a file handling issue. Strange! Well my experience with Word 97/2000, I must say Word puts temporary files in some really weird places. Not a problem normally, but under virtualization I can see this as a possible problem. I don't know, how does the later versions of Word handle it? Does it handle it differently? -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Windows XP SP3 |