> I used excel and word, had windowing operating systems, and databases. Sure they didn't scale as much or have embedded video ... Word for Windows almost cer

> I used excel and word, had windowing operating systems, and databases. Sure they didn't scale as much or have embedded video ... Word for Windows almost certainly supported embedded videos. WordPerfect for Windows certainly did, and I seem to recall it being based upon OLE (a Microsoft technology). This was in the Windows 3.1 era. > ... but in terms of "did they do function X"? Yes they all worked fairly well. The answer is truly an, "it depends." Some modern software is much more powerful. Other software feels like a throwback to the 8-bit era with a shimmering veneer. I used to think that this was a product of web and mobile development effectively forcing developers to start again from scratch, but I am starting to believe that most modern developers lack the ability to implement features that aren't provided by a framework.