It was on, or about, Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:31:57 +0100, that as I was
halfway through a large jam doughnut, Gordon wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> and Microsoft Office documents that are incompatible (even across
>> versions of the _same software
>
> I have to say that's a big shoot-in-the-foot job - the default save in
> Office 2007 is .docx, xlsx and pptx - and it does NOT automatically flag
> up that these formats are unreadable by standard installs of prior
> versions of Office...just like the default pst file formats of Outlook
> 2003 and 2007 are incompatible with prior versions of Outlook...so for
> all the new versions of office, you install the trial version "to have a
> look", create documents/pst files, trial runs out, Bingo! You're
> stuffed. Unless you have access to a machine with a full version on, or
> pay out for your full version, you cannot recover your documents/email,
> which legally belong to YOU the USER, not to Microsoft.
In other words, another attempt to extort money out of suckers from M$'s
"Dirty Tricks Dept", & lock them in.
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The universe exploded out of nothingness 14 billion years ago.
14 billion years later, & some of us have 100 trillion
interconnected cells, & a self-aware consciousness.
Others post through GoogleGroups, & insist on installing Vista.
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