Thanks! Didn't find those back when I was looking for a solution.
What if you use this program in Office 2003 or 2007 and then save in a newer
format or OpenDocument via a plugin or native support in 2007?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12
FYI this is the other plugin for older Office:
Fun fact.. documents created in iWork may also embed a PDF version of the
document which can be extracted. I haven't touched an iWork file since 2010,
but I remember that option.
This refers to the works word format, not the database.
In fact, I found quite a few converter for works word as well as for works
excel, but none for works database.
How about these?
http://www.codealchemists.com/worksdatabaseconverter/
http://www.mydigitallife.info/convert-microsoft-works-database-wdb-to-csv-or-excel-without-works-installed/
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/197894
For example: a non-free software proprietor stops software/security updates
to old-format, and introduces new-format, to encourage everyone to buy
new-software.
Links to articles would be great if you know of any.
Microsoft? They abandoned .doc and switched to OOXML (although .doc support
is still there)
Best example: the microsoft works database.
Microsoft works is an old office suite which has been abandoned years ago.
If you have stored all your data in works formats, then good luck trying to
convert them!
I know that it's pretty hard when it comes to the database files.
Appleworks is a great example.
The current version of iWork cannot open the older Appleworks format. Older
versions of iWork that can read them are not available from Apple and may be
difficult to come by and the PowerPC translation layer, Rosetta cannot be
installed on OS X Lion and up
I would say that's an improvement as .doc, .xls, and .ppt were binary and not
standardized. At least with the new formats, they are XML based and more open
even if Microsoft doesn't follow the ISO standard.
ISTR a web article by an author/writer back in the day about how by the time
of Office 95 Microsoft had abandoned Word v2 format. He was annoyed to say
the least, because as a writer he needed long term access to his text.
Fortunately he hadn't thrown away the old computer with Word 2 on.
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