Re: MS Office -- About to be a nightmare -- AGAIN??!

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Settle down.

There is a conversion program that you can add to your existing Office XP
and Office 2003 Office Applications that will open 2007 documents. If you
are using Office 2000 or earlier, you are out of luck.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en

The "Nightmare" you refer to is a change of file format that is a HUGE
improvement over previous .doc , .ppt and .xls files. File size is reduced
on the order of 50 to 90 % and an industry standard xml file format is used.

I can appreciate your legacy problem, but you can not realistically expect
Microsoft to permit such "boat anchor" software to retard improvements for
the vast majority of users.




"@Goddess" <goddess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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MS Office -- About to be a nightmare -- AGAIN??!

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I have been reading that at least some, if not all, MS Office
documents created in the new version 2007 WILL NOT be able to be
opened and/or modified in previous versions of Office prior to 2003.

ARE YOU KIDDING?!!!! Are we back to this AGAIN???

Years ago there were huge compatibility problems every time MS
upgraded a version of something. It was an IT nightmare.

They finally got rid of that problem. NOW THEY ARE REINTRODUCING
IT?!!!

I am now in a small company that has mostly Windows 98 machines. We
have some custom, mission critical software that cannot run on
anything past Windows 98.

The version of MS office on these machines is the one before 2003 (is
it 2002? ... not sure).

Everything works great on these machines. There are no issues. We
CAN'T upgrade to XP or Vista because our critical software won't work
on it.

So now I am going to get a bunch of ticked off users coming to me
saying they can't open the documents they get because they were
created in the new version of Office?

URRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I understand that MS wants to FORCE people to abandon Windows 98 since
that's the only way they have to hype their new stuff and get enough
sales for it. And this is one of the obnoxious ways they have to be
sure that those that are satisfied with a previous OS will be forced
to scrap it anyway. I'm willing to pay them their extortion if it
would get things to work.

But what the heck is a company like ours supposed to do.

The Office version we need won't run on 98, and our other software
won't run on anything else. I am so furious there are no words.


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