[mdlug] Did I go to lunch and somehow slip into an alternate dimension?

[Michael Corral]

2008-01-17, Monsieur Robert Adkins a ecrit:
> MS Announces the actual opening of old binary office file formats...
>
> http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/01/17/1553206.shtml

The answer to your question is yes, though that's unrelated to the
link you gave.

You can even download Word 5.5 for DOS for free from Microsoft:
<http://download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/WIN98/EN-US/Wd55_ben.exe>

I installed it using DOSEMU in Linux, seems to work:
http://home.comcast.net/~micorral/dosword.png

Who knows, next thing you know they'll open source Microsoft Bob. :)

Michael