[Aalaan]

Exactly. More and more I am coming across Microsoft destroying its
reputation by engineering obsolescence into their software development. IMO
Word 2000 is a superb piece of software but it is arrogant in the extreme to
deliberately try to halt its use. The same for Visual Basic, where the
so-called replacement (Net) is nothing like it and there is no
compatibility, thus wiping out thousands of years of combined effort and
experience.

"Gordon" wrote in message
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Graham Mayor wrote:
Microsoft has discontinued support for 2000 and 97.


Now I wonder why they would introduce a new format of document with a new
version of Office? (Cynicism cynicism)....it's this type of arrogant
behaviour that makes MS look like the tyrannical monopoly it is - no
thought for anything other than to get it's victims, er, sorry,
/customers/, to pay for a new Office suite....