[hblug] The docx problem

[gordon arnott]

( most MS office users have no idea what "document format" means - they just
hit the save button )

Simple sollution

Just save as   >> earlier version <<

before you hit the <<  SAVE  Button  <<

On 4/16/08, chris morris <racepics at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>
> t94xr wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > And most of the software you purchase on newer computers are trials,
> > trial Norton products, trial games, perhaps Norton are doing the same with
> > their security suite.
> > Its the computer manufactuers who are messing people around. A person
> > buys a computer, they sell it with Office 2007 and Norton Internet Security
> > 2008 only to find when they have purchased the computer, the software they
> > thought they were getting with it are only trials and they have to purchase
> > a new copy of Office 2007 and buy another copy of Norton Internet Security.
> > All on their new laptop that has Vista Home Basic, with 512MB RAM.
> >
> And the PC manufacturers put these trial apps in because:
>
> 1 They're getting a kickback from the software company?
> 2 They're hoping that when the app expires the sucker who bought it will
> come back and pay several hundred dollars for more unnecessary software
> because he/she has already ( unknowingly ) committed 3 months work to some
> proprietary file format?
> ( most MS office users have no idea what "document format" means - they
> just hit the save button )
>
>
> I've no objection to MS making random file formats - as long as the
> default save-as is on their application is something generic ( odf , rtf? )
> To dupe unsuspecting customers into saving their work in a proprietary
> format - is typical of MS.
>
> The PC manufacturers could always install OO - but then they couldnt hold
> people to ransom over expired trial software...
>
>
> chris
>
>
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