From CyberTech Rambler (and Slashdot) comes the news that the Office 2003 Service Pack #3 disables (blocks) access to a number of legacy document formats. Details are in this MS support article. Formats so blocked include legacy Lotus 1-2-3 and Corel Quattro Pro formats. Why? According to the Microsoft support article, “By default, these file […]
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Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts
Some interesting news, via Bob Sutor. Let’s take a closer look at the what is being offered as part of this “royalty free” deal from Microsoft. At first it appears like an early Christmas present from Microsoft, a royalty-free license to the Office UI for “software vendors who wish to incorporate the 2007 Microsoft Office […]
Genesis 11:5-9
This, fresh from from Office Watch: “Office 2007 compatibility pack disappoints”. Update 11/15: Some readers have written with more information. This may be an issue between the pre-1.5-final-draft version of OOXML and the final RTM Compatibility Pack. Evidently there were some late changes to the OOXML specification, including a change in namespace URI’s. So the […]
The OOXML Compatibility Pack
Just saw something worth noting. I was on a machine running Office XP and tried to open an Office Open XML (OOXML) formatted document. I don’t know why I tried that, but I did. Word was smart enough to put up the following dialog: Now, that is something I hadn’t seen before. I think we […]
A quick look at the 0.2 ODF Add-in for Word
An updated version of the Microsoft-sponsered ODF Add-in for Word has been posted. A few weeks ago I had tried out the earlier 0.1 version with results you can read here and here. The Add-in’s Highlights page for the 0.2 version says that “This release is comprehensive with respect to Text, Formatting, Paragraphs, Images, Styles […]