[Bush2000]

How different is the current format from 1992 Word?

Not much, according to some folks in Redmond.

Read the suit.

I have. You're obfuscating. Quote from the brief or admit that you're lying.

Microsoft knew the limitation before release of Windows and told no one else of the limitation. They worked around the limitation before the release, and released a working Word around the time of Windows' release.

Whoever gave you that load of bull misled you. Word *never* used Windows menus. It's all owner-draw -- and it's easy to prove with a window messaging tool such as Spy++.

[antiRepublicrat]

I have. You're obfuscating. Quote from the brief or admit that you're lying.

Start at paragraph 70 of the complaint and read down a few to get the tale of the browsing APIs.

That one's specific to this case, in addition to (or maybe included in) the 272 APIs that Microsoft kept to itself in order to have an advantage over competing software developers.