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On 27/10/2014 18:54, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Joao Rodrigues wrote:
> 
>> On 26/10/2014 12:20, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>> Joao Rodrigues wrote:
>>>> .doc was the file format used in MS Word 97-2003, and .docx appeared as
>>>> of Word 2007. […]
>>> Simply wrong.
>>
>> You don't know what you're talking about.
>  
> It's the pot calling the kettle black again.  Probably in contrast to you,
> I have been there. 

I've been using the Microsoft Office suite since 1995, and I've been
using MS Office 2003 until 2011, when I moved on to the 2007 version.
That's why I can say there was not a .docx file format in Word 2003,
unless one have installed the "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack". In
addition, there is a Microsoft's article about it: "Open a Word 2007
document in an earlier version of Word"
<https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Open-a-Word-2007-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-Word-8fe47805-64a9-4cc5-a115-b148625fe043?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US>

> I have opened and created DOCX documents with a default 
> setup of Microsoft Word 2003 back in 2006.

Certainly, you have been updating your Windows / Office installation
with the "Windows Update" and / or you have installed the "Microsoft
Office Compatibility Pack".

> I have also created DOC 
> documents with a default setup of Word for Windows 6.0 back in the 1990s.  
> (Actually, the DOC format dates back even further.)

ACK. I recall using .doc files since 1995.

> 
> So, *everything* in your statement is wrong:

Not *everything*.

> 
> 1. .doc was _not_ introduced with MS Word 97; see also the date in [1].

I have not written that the .doc file format was introduced with the MS
Word 97.

> 
> 2. .doc has _not_ ceased to be supported with Word 2003; it is still
>    supported (read/write) by the more recent versions of Microsoft Word,
>    for example Word 2010 where the “File Type” in the “Save As” dialog is
>    labeled in German „Word 97-2003-Dokument“ because the format was
>    not formally specified before those versions.

I have not written that ".doc has ceased to be supported with Word 2003".

> 
> 3. Office Open XML and its subset Word XML (.docx) were_not_ introduced with
>    Office 2007, but with Office 2003.  It only was not the *default* before
>    version 2007 (probably because the Specification was not finished yet). 
>    ECMA-376, that is based on it, was approved by the Ecma General Assembly
>    in December 2006.


Incorrect. MS Word 2003 supported XML, but the .docx binary file format
was introduced with the MS Word 2007. You are mistaking the two things.

-- 
Joao Rodrigues

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Files Carter Temm <crtbraille@gmail.com> - 2014-10-25 06:54 -0700
  Re: Files "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-10-25 17:14 +0200
  Re: Files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-10-25 19:34 +0200
    Re: Files Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com> - 2014-10-26 11:44 -0200
      Re: Files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-10-26 15:20 +0100
        Re: Files Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-10-27 15:22 -0200
          Re: Files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-10-27 21:54 +0100
            Re: Files Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-10-28 11:15 -0200

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