Re: [NTLK] IMPORTANT: Newton Revival Imminent

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Wed Mar 17 2004 - 09:33:08 PST


kareljansens wrote:

> I still think they're stupid: Stone Multimedia sends out a survey form that
> can only be read from a computer with MS Word and Excel installed (don't even
> think about using OpenOffice.org, 'cuz it isn't able to fill out the form

That's because the survey is an Excel spreadsheet embedded within a Word
document. Strange that OO wouldn't just use its spreadsheet...

Anyways, I read the file metadata (File -> Properties). According to it, the
title of the document is:

"We are a group of students at Ryerson University in Toronto taking a course
in Marketing Research"

This was probably originally the first sentence of the document, was saved,
and then edited later. The first time you save a document Word will slurp the
first heading or sentence and save it as the document title. Well, now we
know who really wrote the survey.

I call shenanigans. Apple will not licence the NewtonOS: it contains
important code that is past, present, and hopefully future products. We've
been down this road before, many many times.

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