WP Doc

[cincibuck]

Bless Bill Gates and his pointy little head. He's done it again. Remember when Windows 98 came out and all of a sudden people started sending you files and you couldn't open them because you were still operating on Win 95?

Students who got computers in the last couple of months come into my classroom and find out that their files are in something titled WPdoc and none of the computers on campus can open them. I'm back to teaching rtf and how to convert files to rtf. Further they have to go back and reset the default

So, OK techies, why does MS do this? Because they can? Because they don't realize what a disruption they're creating? $$$$$$?

I can't wait till Vista comes out and really screws things up. Anybody got the number for an Apple dealer?

 

[Hodge]

Yes, it's the $$. It's a proprietary format, so in order to use it you have to have the micro$oft programs. Of course the open source community has reverse-engineered the .doc format for limited use in open office. WP is probably a Corel Word Perfect document. Just another proprietary format. It's the same as anything else, nobody wants to share their method of doing business with their opposing companies.

 

[CleveBucks]

Yesterday I got a .xlsx file which is supposedly based upon the new OpenXML standard supported by Office 2007. Excel 2003 choked on it.

 

[Big Papa]

Yesterday I got a .xlsx file which is supposedly based upon the new OpenXML standard supported by Office 2007. Excel 2003 choked on it.

Yeah, Office 2k7 is all f'd up. Working at at Net Admin for a medium-large organization, we are dreading implementing it. What CB stated above being one reason, the other being to totally new look and operability. It is going to make those of us used to how Office has been for years freak out.

 

[OCBucksFan]

Yeah, Office 2k7 is all f'd up. Working at at Net Admin for a medium-large organization, we are dreading implementing it. What CB stated above being one reason, the other being to totally new look and operability. It is going to make those of us used to how Office has been for years freak out.

UGH, this looks to me like a force upgrade, they did that with 2k3 with their image capture format. I work IT for a bank and people were emailing documents to us in the new ms format rather than use PDF, essentially forcing this huge network wide deployment.

I hate Microsoft.