Under XP Home on my new Hewlett Packard pc, Word 97, which I installed, irritatingly converted the mouse pointer (not the cursor) to an hourglass every seven seconds for 1.5 seconds. (The program had worked perfectly under ME). During the conversion period typing would hang, and pressing 'End' would take me to the end of the document rather than the end of the line, even hanging the document completely. MS 'support' UK told me that they, regretfully, don't 'support' 97 any more, and because the XP version was tailored for HP it wasn't their problem either. Maybe Ford should take a lead from the MS after-sales business model.
The HP call centre in Asia was brilliant. They took the view that the problem was MS Works, which came pre-installed. Uninstal Works in its entirety and problem gone.
So, Works conflicts with Word. Joined up programming? Not.
Impressive even by MS standards.
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