Post #1932299
2025-02-13 11:46 UTC
@Seetee @DrPen Yeah text document implies plain text.
The wiki page for docx refers to the type of files in question as "word processing documents", which seems accurate but is a bit of a mouthful. I suppose a compromise is to contract it to (lower case) "word documents" though that of course does not stand the line particularly clearly against the Microsoft software.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
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@distrowatch@mastodon.social 2025-02-13 12:43
@jalager @Seetee @DrPen. In most contexts just saying "document" works. As in "I sent you the document we were discussing," or "The client sent over the document we asked for."
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@LovesTha@floss.social 2025-02-13 23:48
@jalager @Seetee @DrPen I feel MS should have their trademark on "Word" revoked, the word is too generic to be a trademark.