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by s3cur3 2337 days ago
Agreed. Most of my Windows-using family members wouldn't be able to tell the difference between WordPad and Word... until they go to share the file and discover that RTF looks different on every other person's machine. This is entirely a positive for the tech-illiterate portion of Microsoft's userbase, who probably intended to be using Word anyway.
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It will also train them to further ignore the presence of these bars if they see them and close them without reading - these same bars that usually contain security warnings in Office products.