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Re: Microsoft 'update' breaks Office for Mac

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____/ nessuno on Monday 03 August 2009 14:05 : \____

> <Quote>
> Fans of OpenOffice, Google Docs, and other alternatives are going to
> be hard to live with today for users of Office 2008 for Mac...
> 
> Microsoft's recently released Service Pack 2 for Office 2008 for Mac
> makes it impossible for many users to open Office files created on
> PCs.
> 
> The "update" - Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 (12.2.0) -
> was released last Monday. In its release notes, Microsoft promised
> that it would "improve stability, reliability, and performance." It
> also includes a new app called Microsoft Document Connection to aid in
> working with files on a SharePoint site or in a Microsoft Office Live
> Workspace.
> 
> Unfortunately, what the release notes don't say is that Service Pack 2
> also makes it impossible for many Office 2008 for Mac users to open
> some Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), and PowerPoint (.pptx) files created
> by PCs running Office 2007 for Windows and saving into the Open XML
> format.
> </Quote>
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/31/office_for_mac_service_pack_woes/

Recommended solution:

Those Mac 'fanboiz' should just 'upgrade' to Windows.

/sarcasm

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