For the technical inexperience that I had back then, in combination with age and how long ago that is already now, I feel like my brain still remembers quite a chunk. Only, today I'd know way better how to navigate with such old software and I'd be inclined to look at certain things that didn't seem interesting back in the day.
Word 6.0 is a bit of indefineable to me... On one hand, you had the character limitation for file names just like under a conventional Dos-system, but on the other... I think, trying to use something like Dos-box on it failed because it says you need MS Windows to run it. So it wasn't a Dos application. (Probably 16-bit because, I think, as changing to Win7, it couldn't be run on that OS either, and I think the error message it gave you was the hint that this is neither a 32-bit, nor a 64-bit application and therefore cannot be run.)
As you mention that... Yes, I think this application was finalized, there was no Service Pack for it or versions around updated with a Service Pack.
Fun trivia thing besides - in WinME, you could let Wordpad natively save as Word 6.0 data format. No idea why they integrated it there... If it was technically not that difficult?
As far as I know from critics and own usage, the peak in office functionality seemingly was reached by Microsoft with their office applications around the Millennium. Those are far lesser complained about than later versions (e. g. in design and how something particular works) - and the licensing aspect with them was still the old-school way ( = installing software on a PC and then you were done; no online copy-protection that limited you in how many PCs you could equip with it; no annual paid subscriptions necessary). On top of it - compatibility from Word 97 up to Word 2003. It didn't matter which version of these you used to write a document. They all could read them.
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Date: 2022-07-22 10:18 pm (UTC)Word 6.0 is a bit of indefineable to me... On one hand, you had the character limitation for file names just like under a conventional Dos-system, but on the other... I think, trying to use something like Dos-box on it failed because it says you need MS Windows to run it. So it wasn't a Dos application. (Probably 16-bit because, I think, as changing to Win7, it couldn't be run on that OS either, and I think the error message it gave you was the hint that this is neither a 32-bit, nor a 64-bit application and therefore cannot be run.)
As you mention that... Yes, I think this application was finalized, there was no Service Pack for it or versions around updated with a Service Pack.
Fun trivia thing besides - in WinME, you could let Wordpad natively save as Word 6.0 data format. No idea why they integrated it there... If it was technically not that difficult?
As far as I know from critics and own usage, the peak in office functionality seemingly was reached by Microsoft with their office applications around the Millennium. Those are far lesser complained about than later versions (e. g. in design and how something particular works) - and the licensing aspect with them was still the old-school way ( = installing software on a PC and then you were done; no online copy-protection that limited you in how many PCs you could equip with it; no annual paid subscriptions necessary).
On top of it - compatibility from Word 97 up to Word 2003. It didn't matter which version of these you used to write a document. They all could read them.