Comment by alkonaut
9 years ago
If the thing is 17 years old an a replacement has existed since forever, what purpose does this file have today (Assuming I'm on a modern windows, I run either no ms office or a modern office version).
9 years ago
If the thing is 17 years old an a replacement has existed since forever, what purpose does this file have today (Assuming I'm on a modern windows, I run either no ms office or a modern office version).
From the article:
> While Office has had a new Equation Editor integrated since at least version 2007, Microsoft can't simply remove EQNEDT32.EXE (the old Equation Editor) from Office as there are probably tons of old documents out there containing equations in this old format, which would then become un-editable.
Ah. missed that. But obviously I'd be very happy for this program to be patched by replacing it with this program:
Becuase there comes a point in time when any time you bump into an equation like this, it's actually more likely to be a malicious one.
Even better if they could at least render the old equation statically using the new office, but not edit it. Then it would be almost insanely rare that anyone needs the old editor.
This is the kind of thing that can rapidly escalate to a CTO asking his Microsoft sales VP why he's spending $18M/year on upgrade and support contracts when a report that's worked "forever" can start talking back like Clippy.
Microsoft doesn't preserve backward compatibility because they're stubborn; it's a key part of their value proposition to some of their biggest clients.
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