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[News] [Rival] Microsoft 'Kills' Old Formats, Documents

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft 'Kills' Old Formats, Documents
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:22:24 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Office 2003 Service Pack Disables Older File Formats

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| In Service Pack 3 for Office 2003, Microsoft disabled support for many older 
| file formats. If you have old Word, Excel, 1-2-3, Quattro, or Corel Draw 
| documents, watch out!   
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/01/137257&from=rss

This is yet another lesson about digital preservation and why Microsoft should
be taken out the door.

Microsoft is putting the heat on users of old versions of Office. The company
also takes away Office 2003 from the resellers:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=519

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| It’s only been six months since Microsoft launched Office 2007 at retail. But 
| as of July 1, 2007, Microsoft won’t be making the OEM version of Office 2003 
| to its PC partners, a k a “OEMs.”  
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Implication: average users must move to OOXML. Greedy manipulative bastards.
and again they use 'security' as an excuse (like "terrorism" for rewriting law
and going to unnecessary wars). This isn't the first time. See:

Microsoft flip-flops on Vista virtualization

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| Software like Parallels Desktop for the Mac or Microsoft's own Virtual 
| PC for Windows allow multiple operating systems to run simultaneously. 
| When it announced licensing rules for Vista last year, Microsoft said 
| that only Vista Business and Vista Ultimate could run as guest 
| operating systems. The company said virtualization presents inherent 
| security risks and that it hoped by limiting which versions of the OS 
| could act as virtual machines, only sophisticated users and businesses 
| would employ the tactic.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6191787.html

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