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Panther's TextEdit to Open MS Word Files

Posted by pudge on from the now-ms-can-freely-dump-office dept.

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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  1. The question is... by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 0, Troll

    Whether Apple will leak down stuff like this to Linux.

    After all, when they went to BSD, they inherited most all the apps and filters from Linux too.

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