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?"

Comments

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".

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?