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Peter Burnett's avatar

Thanks, Mike, but no, it wasn't that... I moved to press the Post button but at that moment my entire message disappeared.

I had difficulty posting another message shortly after this one and wasn't sure I'd succeeded until I saw it on my phone. The draft was still on my computer. Maybe it's the computer playing up. I've had the impression over the past 20 years or so that every time that I'm completely at ease with a Microsoft product, they scrap it and bring in something worse, when it's not plain awful.

For my own purposes, I've never had anything better than Word XP. I remember that a theoretical physicist I knew felt the same way...

I'm reminded of when I was a kid and American car manufacturers turned out a new model every year... So, even when they made something lovely to look at like the '48 Buick, it was succeeded by a crap design.

As we saw with Manila's Jeepneys and Havana's seemingly everlasting American cars from prehistory, unsafe-at-any-speed may have guzzled gas but was long-lasting...

Excuse the digression frm serious things...

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Anne-Louise Luccarini's avatar

I've kept my old laptop with XP on it. I use it as a table for my present laptop. I loved my XP.

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Lynell(VA by way of MD&DC)'s avatar

I saved mine, too!

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Peter Burnett's avatar

I call that set-up Micro... something else...

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Lynell(VA by way of MD&DC)'s avatar

XP, yes! And the rest of what you say, Peter.

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JaneDough56's avatar

I had troubles posting last night too. I went to post and it was already there, like a running duplicate.

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Mike S's avatar

Hmmm....... are you on WiFi? Maybe it is cutting out.

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Peter Burnett's avatar

No, this looks the same as what Jane DoughS reports. In my case WiFi on the phone functioned but my computer's wired up to a modem connected to fibreglass cable.

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