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> People would regularly send Word or Excel document and there were no reasonable alternatives to Office to deal with those. Corel, Word Perfect, Lotus... othe
by mr_spothawk 9y ago
> People would regularly send Word or Excel document and there were no reasonable alternatives to Office to deal with those.
Corel, Word Perfect, Lotus... others.
- phicoh 9y agoMy recollection of that period is that Microsoft kept changing the formats of Word and Excel files fast enough that trying edit those files with Word Perfect or Lotus was domed to fail. At some point even finding a common version among different versions of Word was almost impossible.