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Originally Posted by BetterRed
That's true - IBM still has utilities available under z/OS that first saw the light of day in OS/360 50 years ago, most long lived operating systems have boatloads of legacy.
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And yet, Microsoft is perfectly comfortable removing
deprecated legacy features, as you yourself go on to point out.
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In respect of this topic Word and Excel haven't changed much since they were bundled into Office 25 years ago. I predict they will retain their DDE capabilities as long as they are a current MS products. And if that's true then Windows (File) Explorer will support DDE parameters in order to present the options to end users. I occasionally use the Print and New options - at one time I used them much more.
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Unfortunately for that theory, Word 2007 actually does not support the DDE command any more. Sending it the DDE Command "REM_DDE_Direct" results in a command not found error. So Microsoft have, as a matter of fact dropped the DDE support, they apparently just forgot to remove it from the registry keys.