[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Jay

Jay Freedman wrote:
Why break something that
worked perfectly well before and was inoffensive? I can't recall anyone ever
complaining before that "I clicked the small X to close the last document,
but Word didn't shut down".

Good point. IIRC it was Microsoft that started to teach users not to
think/work application-centric (first start app, then open file in it),
but document-centric (double-click the document, and whoever "owns" that
data will gladly open up with it).

At least on a modern computer, an Office app will start pretty fast --
no need to keep it open all the time. [The AV tools is a different
thing, but they will kick in anyway when you open a file no matter
whethere the app was open before or not.]

2cents
Robert
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