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Microsoft role
editIt would not surprise me in the least if Microsoft was behind the interment of WriteNow, wanting to remove competition for Word. Robert P. O'Shea 17:25, 3 December 2004 via AlainV
[correction] Microsoft out-spent, out-marketed, and ultimately out-lasted T/Maker and subsequent WriteNow owners/publishers. Like almost every other desktop application, Microsoft just won in the marketplace.
Power PC
editI had always figured that the disappearance of WriteNow was due to its being written in 680x0 assembly. Once Apple made the move to PowerPC, moving it to the then-new architecture would have meant a complete rewrite. -- Hawaiian717 00:04, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Character styles
editWriteNow is the first word processor I know of to implement stylesheet-type character styles. The other advanced word processors of its day that I used had paragraph styles, but character styling was done on a one-off basis. Global character styles were a big advance because they allowed global updating.
Does anyone know if there were any prior examples of modern character styles, on the Mac or elsewhere?
Emulation
editMac OS 9 is not emulated in Mac OS X's Classic mode. It is Mac OS 9! Lavenderbunny (talk) 08:03, 14 June 2010 (UTC)