I see a lot of discussion on the subject. I think that
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/01/137257 says it best.
Quote
"In Service Pack 3 for Office 2003, Microsoft disabled support for many
older file formats. If you have old Word, Excel, 1-2-3, Quattro, or
Corel Draw documents, watch out! They did this because the old formats
are 'less secure', which actually makes some sense, but only if you got
the files from some untrustworthy source. Naturally, they did this by
default, and then documented a mind-bogglingly complex workaround (KB
938810) rather than providing a user interface for adjusting it, or even
a set of awkward 'Do you really want to do this?' dialog boxes to click
through. And of course because these are, after all, old file formats
... many users will encounter the problem only months or years after the
software change, while groping around in dusty and now-inaccessible
archives."
End quote.
No need to reply, just read and draw your on conclusions.
Andy
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