Thread: Nokia N900 Counter-Arguments for Complaints
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gerbick
2010-05-31 , 08:39
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Originally Posted by aspidites View Post
@gerbick: I never claimed that Windows couldn't read *.doc files out of box.
Earlier you said:

I could rebut this as such: "The N900 is a handheld Linux computer, and .doc, .xls, etc are proprietary Windows formats, so it shouldn't be expected to support them out of box. You should have gotten a windows mobile device if this was important to you"
That's what I was addressing.

Are you implying then that *.doc is an exclusive format to write reports, papers, etc; that excel is an exclusive format to write spreadsheets?
I didn't say that, now did I? I said that *.doc was not proprietary Windows - thus Microsoft - formats. It belonged to WordPerfect.

The rest... you've assumed way too much unfortunately.