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And sometimes the excess data that Word hangs onto can come back to haunt you -- or, as was the case recently, Microsoft. It seems that when Microsoft issued its annual report this year it also provided the document in Word format, downloadable from its Web site. And if you look carefully at the extra information implanted in the document -- say, by opening it in a plain text processor -- you find something odd: The report seems to have been composed on a Macintosh computer. (At least, there are references to an author's G3 Mac and records indicating the file was created using Word 98 for Macintosh.) This intriguing little fact, which was discovered by Richard Smith and reported on the Macintosh news site Macintouch, is not, of course, reason for Bill Gates to go red in the face. After all, the days when Apple was viewed as Microsoft's chief competition are long gone, and the Redmond colossus is now even a (small) investor in Steve Jobs' new Apple. Still, there's something deliciously daffy about the thought of the very ledger of Microsoft's jumbo profits being composed on a Mac -- and some kind of poetic justice in that fact coming to light thanks to the idiosyncrasies of Microsoft's own software. salon.com | Oct. 12, 1999 - - - - - - - - - - - - About the writer Scott Rosenberg is Salon's managing editor. For more columns by Rosenberg, visit his column archive. 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