alt Hacker NewsYeah but 98% of Word features were buried in like 2004. They were added when it was a selling point to use unicorn and gnome icons as your table border in under 100mb of RAM. So we’re talking about 20% of the limited set of features that remain not just for backwards compatibility.
And there's some company out there that has very important Word documents that will fail to open if you take away the unicorn and gnome icons table border feature.