Software is developing slowly..

What's holding us back? The monopolies? That doesn't explain why Unix is hardly any more advanced than Windows.

A topic on /b/ was joking about how you can rename a .doc filetype to .jpg and it will automatically be converted. Why isn't this so? Why hasn't Longhorn incorporated this? This is one of the SIMPLEST features that could have such a huge impact on ease of use.

But how is it that programs today have no more capabilities than those of 1995? When is this going to change?

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Who wouldn't want to keep text editable? gb2/Adobe. In any case, no, it's very easy. If it fits one screen, you just press Print Screen, then paste at a bitmap editor of your choice. If it doesn't, then converting it to an image is an even badder idea and you shouldn't do that, but if you want to do, you can print it to a Postscript file, then load it from a bitmap editor which supports importing that (any decent one should), and do whatever you need before saving as JPG.

JPG is a bad choice for that though. Use PNG instead.