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Originally Posted by Titan
I am not a hater but do have an opinion. I like my mac. It does what I want and does not break. To say it is compatible if you load this or buy that does not mean it is compatible. ..........
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You don't have to be a mechanic to know that you shouldn't put diesel in your car. Is your car incompatible?
Again, the incompatibility exists because you are talking about a more or less proprietary Microsoft file format that has essentially been reversed engineered to work in other applications. Apple supports and promotes a multitude of open standards that offer data portability and ensures compatibility. Microsoft is to slowly embracing these as well and opening up their formats but people have embraced the .doc format as a standard when it isn't. It's incompatible because Microsoft made it that way. Can you open a .pages file in Word? No. Does that make Windows incompatible?
I have nothing against proprietary file formats, just the way they are implemented. PDF for example is Adobe's format but there is no problems in terms compatibility between platforms or data interpretation.