Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.vintage,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: """Standard""" software (was: Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon) Date: 27 Jun 2026 19:42:44 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <1115q51$la$1@dont-email.me> <111fqaq$2pbrc$1@dont-email.me> <111fqum$11vn7$1@news1.tnib.de> <111gbuk$2sr2f$13@dont-email.me> <111hii9$3b57f$1@dont-email.me> <111ifsc$3hha9$1@dont-email.me> <111ii4p$3ik55$1@dont-email.me> <20260626122353.00005191@gmail.com> <111n0r6$svm3$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net thYeMFSTSOpgeYBSl11nZwtVYtLqIpRuC/XNJGMEwFqv4vjbRg Cancel-Lock: sha1:+Gqjc+bxyKn7vLuNFejEmaQRTkI= sha256:pncToT9S80yoVNWP2gM6RdqtGceZZRdSWeO8GIWlJZE= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.vintage:1782 comp.os.linux.misc:88465 On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:22:31 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2026-06-26, Your Name wrote: > >> Microsloth Windoze and Orifice have unfortunately been basically >> business standards for multiple decades now. Word was first released in >> 1983 and "Office" (with Excel, etc.) in 1989. > > Don't forget Outlook - which is more correctly pronounced "Look out!" > It is the biggest disease vector for top-posting. Then there was Outlook Express that had absolutely nothing to do with Outlook except a vague UX similarity. For all its warts Outlook was COM based and you could make it do tricks be calling the exposed methods, which were somewhat documented.