Panther's TextEdit to Open MS Word Files

2muchcoffeeman writes "Further signs that Jobs and Gates probably won't be vacationing together anytime soon: New Damage has what looks to be screenshot proof of Panther's TextEdit.app opening a Microsoft Word .DOC file. Panther beta users who have tried this report at MacSlash that it works, to a point. So what's next? Is Apple now going to bring back the late, great MacWrite Pro?"

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This won't replace office until

[commodoresloat]

...Apple puts a talking paperclip into TextEdit

Re:This won't replace office until

[Mikey-San]

It looks like you're trying to compete with our products! Would you like to:

[] Make a better product and make us look like fools
[] Make a better product but watch it fail as we FUD you to death
[] Sell yourself to us

HOLY FUCK.

[Mikey-San]

I just got Slashdotted.

So far, I'm holding up, thanks to Smallbits, my host. AWESOME host, also host of Bungie.org.

I am going to make a t-shirt that says: "I've been Slashdotted. Have you?"

Re:HOLY FUCK.

[elemental23]

Slashdot should give a t-shirt out to their vict^H^H^H^Hlinked web site admins reading "I got Slashdotted and all I got was this lousy t-shirt".

In other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

In other news Microsoft has announced they will stop releasing individual Office releases for Windows, and will istead embed Office into Windows itself. They have also announced it will stop development of Office v.X for Mac OS X.

Fucking PDFs

[pmsyyz]

pudge, fucking warm us with a [PDF] like google does when linking to shitty PDF files. Thank you.

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox: PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption

Re:That's not only awesome, but..

[slughead]

no of course not

syntax coloring is for people who make mistakes :)

Keep me guessing

[switcha]

Sure, but does it support the neato macro virii that help make office life so much of an edge-of-your-seat experience?