It's one of many reasons why I consider it a waste of money, time, and mindshare to purchase Microsoft products, at any price. My deep disdain for Microsoft products and the corporation which produces them is the result of 17 years in computing. It's not a rash judgement, trust me.
Cheers, Dave Don Gould wrote: > Dave Lane wrote: >> No, Microsoft's proprietary non-standard format DOCX is always >> unacceptable. > > It's *not* even acceptable as if you support closed source!!! > > Sorry Dave... my DOCX comment really was just a frustrated troll about > the fact that MS release stuff that's not backwards compatible. > > As I understand it, you can read newer PDFs with older viewers, it just > doesn't display the new meta data. > > DOCX on the other hand can't even be opened and ships by default on > newer machines. It's a really pain!!! > > Cheers Don > > > -- Dave Lane = Egressive Ltd = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = m: +64 21 229 8147 p: +64 3 9633733 = Linux: it just tastes better = nosoftwarepatents http://egressive.com ==== we only use open standards: http://w3.org Effusion Group Founding Member =========== http://effusiongroup.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
