Thread: Kobo Desktop no longer available for Windows XP
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Old 12-30-2014, 06:25 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Alastair_S View Post
Why shouldn't he use WordStar? His profession is writing and no doubt his familiarity with WordStar, alongside what must by now be a well muscle-memory, allows him to produce work far more quickly and efficiently with that word-processor than with any other. This may also explain why he has remained with XP because 32-bit XP is the last release of MS Windows that officially allows full-screen DOS sessions (it is possible to obtain full-screen DOS sessions with some installations of Win 7, but it requires a lot of effort and is not guaranteed to work).
I'm sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I have absolutely nothing against the OP using WordStar -- I still use WordStar for DOS in DOSBox under Linux. It's by far my favorite word processor. My clumsily made point (attempt at making a point, I should say) is that "obsolete" is in the eye of the beholder.
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