to my knowledge, Microsoft never released the file format for Word 2000/2003.
They don't want people to be able to open them with different programs, they want those people to buy word as well.
Microsoft simply has too much to lose if other programs like OpenOffice can read/write word documents flawlessly.
OpenOffice is free. Would you buy Microsoft office for $$extortion$$ if you could get a completely free, legal alternative that can do the same thing? No. and microsoft knows that too, hence they simply don't release the specifications for their document formats anymore.
Any info on Word 2000/2003 you'll find has been obtained by people painstakingly tring to reverse engineer the document format... and still not perfect.
bottom line: I don't think that a Word 2000/2003 document viewer in blitz is going to be a realistic expectation... Or in *any* language any time soon, for that matter.
They don't want people to be able to open them with different programs, they want those people to buy word as well.
Microsoft simply has too much to lose if other programs like OpenOffice can read/write word documents flawlessly.
OpenOffice is free. Would you buy Microsoft office for $$extortion$$ if you could get a completely free, legal alternative that can do the same thing? No. and microsoft knows that too, hence they simply don't release the specifications for their document formats anymore.
Any info on Word 2000/2003 you'll find has been obtained by people painstakingly tring to reverse engineer the document format... and still not perfect.
bottom line: I don't think that a Word 2000/2003 document viewer in blitz is going to be a realistic expectation... Or in *any* language any time soon, for that matter.