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Re: Apotheon
Ok, so you're a huge anti-bloat fanboy.

Tell me this. How exactly is any office suite ever going to support previous file formats dating back years and years without adding bloat to the suite?

Periodically, file format changes become a necessity whether you agree with that or not.

With Office 2007, yes there are converters in order to work through a transition period where older versions of Office will coexist.

There are reasons why the world isn't using the same file formats that we used 10 years ago. And there are reasons we won't be using the same file formats 10 years from now.

But, along your line of thinking, all software should either A) never change file formats or B) be bloated to hell and back so that they can support all formats dating back to the beginning of time.
Posted by rkuhn@...
5th May 2007

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