PR Piata: Sharing Is Caring

A curious reader asks about sharing files across platforms, and the Piata issues forth a prize.

Once again the Duo root around in the mailbag and award a tchotchke from the PR Piñata--that repository of junk that public relations people insist on sending us.

Viewer Pablo writes from cyberspace: "I have been wanting to purchase an IBook for some time now, but I've hesitated because of the interoperability between Windows and Macs. Would I be able to share Word documents or pictures between an IBook and a friend's Windows laptop? What kinds of files would I not be able to share?"

Angela confirms Pablo's fond hope: In theory, most files you create on a Mac can indeed be opened on a Windows machine. Nice theory, but Steve notes that just in putting this show together, the Duo ran into two glitches while transferring files between a Mac and a Windows machine.

For instance, notes Angela, files from Microsoft Office applications are supposedly fully compatible between Mac and Windows. But where a graphic should have appeared in one Mac Word document, the Windows machine couldn't show it, claiming the PC didn't have the right ...

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