[hblug] The docx problem

[chris morris]

Don't know if anyone here has experienced this, but twice now I have 
been sent M$ Office documents in a docx format and twice I've been 
unable to do anything with them.
OpenOffice wont open them, nor will MS Word (03)
It seems M$ has set the default document type on Office 2007 as .docx
When people who buy new machines ( with Vista installed ) use the 
pre-installed trial of Office2007 they end up saving their docs in .docx 
format. Of course they all work properly on the host machine, and on 
anything else that has Office2007 installed.
But when they email these docs to others we cant use them.
Its all well and good to ask people to save-as something else, but many 
have no idea how to do that, or even know what your talking about, they 
just hit the save button.

Problems also occur when the trial of Office2007 expires. The user has 
made all his/her documents in this random format and cannot access them 
unless they buy Office 2007.
Thats very close to extortion, but this sort of behavior from M$ doesn't 
surprise me anymore.

Chris





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