____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 07 February 2008 10:43 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Microsoft Cuts Off Access To Old Documents
>>
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>>| With the blink of a 117 MB download (and an even lengthier installation
>>| process), Office users will no longer be able to open files in 24 older
>>| file formats. That means users ? citizens, government employees, small
>>| business owners, etc. ? will not be able to open their own documents saved
>>| in file formats used by Corel (Wordperfect), Lotus, and most versions of MS
>>| Office products before 2000. Instead, users will see the
>>| not-so-user-friendly statement below:
>>|
>>| ?You are attempting to open a file type that is blocked by your registry
>>| policy setting.?
>>|
>>| When a user attempts to open one of these older files, they will receive
>>| the above in a dialog box and no alternative actions are given to help
>>| users get access to their information in these ?blocked? files.
>> `----
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http://www.fanaticattack.com/2008/microsoft-cuts-off-access-to-old-documents.html
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>
> Surely this action demonstrates why it's so important to have a real
> standard, like ODF, rather than a proprietary pseudo-standard like
> Microsoft-OOXML.
>
> Unless, of course, nobody values access to their data...
The formats will change again in Office 2009, so that's another forced upgrade.
>> Related:
>>
>> Microsoft Breaks the [ODF] Plugins
>>
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>>| Sun is having trouble because Microsoft is breaking interoperability
>>| deliberately through hi-jinks with the Dynamic-Link Libraries ("dll") in
>> `----
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>> http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/08/microsoft-break.html
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