So they are abandoning the only thing that makes most people depend on them. Good.
“…suggest saving old documents in .PDF to “preserve them”.”
…so start editing old documents with one of our biggest software rivals, adobe, using their format which isn’t editable, or you know, just use a FOSS text editor/word processor?
You can’t short their stock fast enogh
Y’know who won’t be?
LibreOffice Write
I love LibreOffice, truly. But they also can’t open old documents without formatting changes. Microsoft didn’t announce that Word wouldn’t open old documents, just that there would be layout troubles.
Yep, just about to say… You got an old document that MS Word won’t open? I bet LibreOffice will still open it just fine.
I think it even opens Wordstar files.
I would honestly be shocked to find any text file format – no matter how old or obscure – that LibreOffice couldn’t open.
Intellectually, I’m sure there must be some out there. But it would still come across as a huge shock to actually find one in the wild.
