Let's talk about Word, per Chris Pratley

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These are some great articles, written by Chris Pratley, a group program manager at Microsoft, (Blog, Bio) about the history of MS Word. These articles are too good for me to pass up. 

Very interesting history and perspective.

Let’s talk about Word

https://weblogs.asp.net/chris_pratley/archive/2004/04/27/120944.aspx

Word Myths and Feedback

https://weblogs.asp.net/chris_pratley/archive/2004/04/28/122004.aspx

In the second article, I think, you’ll find one possible origin of the belief that Microsoft will try to “Lock people In” to their file formats, etc.