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Originally Posted by haertig View Post
It sounds like this Mircrosoft "book" was not actually a book or an ebook format (like EPUB, MOBI, etc.)

It was a 16-bit program that displayed text/pictures/videos. And you are now having trouble running this 16-bit program.

This is not surprising. But it is not an indictment of the long term viability of actual formats like EPUB, PDF, MOBI, etc.
This is exactly why I cringe when people who poo-poo multimedia and/or interactivity in ebooks suggest that it would be better to do such things in "an app" instead of an ebook. Let the future decide if the world needed multimedia ebooks or not. If such capabilities are baked right into EPUB, at least many of them will have been created with open standards, rather then being fragmented into a million proprietary binary programs.
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