Using Pub. from beginning WHY is it NOT backwards compatible?

[RobDay]

Have been using Publisher since the beginning and I love it for so many things.

How ever I have lost the ability to take older files and be able to use
formats I have created in past verses today...keep OLD equipment and SW just
to do this ....you have some great features in the past you do not have
now...why did you NOT make this backwards compatible ...would make sense to
do so....

Ex product mgr Digital equipment corp. (networks)

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[Ed Bennett]

How ever I have lost the ability to take older files and be able to
use formats I have created in past verses today...

Publisher 2003 can open files from Publisher 2.0a upwards, last time I
checked. The only files that can't be opened are those from Publisher 1.0,
corrupt files, and some web publications from older versions (which only
fail to open due to bugs in Norton AntiVirus).

keep OLD equipment
and SW just to do this ....

Open Publisher 1.0 files in Publisher 2.0. Save. The resulting files can
be opened in all versions of Publisher since.

you have some great features in the past
you do not have now...

Would you like to describe some, so we have some idea what you're going on
about?

why did you NOT make this backwards compatible

Publisher is more backwards-compatible now than it ever has been. Up until
Publisher 98, you couldn't save files for use in an older version. Now you
can save all the way back to Publisher 98 (a good 8 years of versions).
Publisher 2002 can even open files from Publisher 2003 without the need for
a Save As - they share the same file format. So Publisher 2002 was
FORWARD-compatible. Publisher 2003 is also forward-compatible; both
Publisher 2002 and 2003 can open files from Publisher 2007.

...would make sense to
do so....

Yes, it would.

Ex product mgr Digital equipment corp. (networks)

What about one? Are you one?
Don't product managers have to be able to use question marks and write in
sentences?