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by scarface_74 334 days ago
And when that happens, LibreOffice, GSuite and even Apple’s iWork suite can open the documents.

Word for the Mac has been in continuos production since 1986. It made through a 16 bit MacOS (I’m yada yada yada’ing) , to 32 bit “clean” System 7 on a 68040, to classic MacOS PPC to native OS X on PPC Carbon 32 bit, to x86 64 bit OS X APIs to ARM.

Would you really want to use Windows 3.1 Word in 2025? One of the major issues with Windows is that it carries stoubf cruft from 1992.

There are for instance still a dozen ways to define a string in Windows programming depending on the API and you have to convert between them