Don't you think they have the right to release a document format that isn't backward compatible after about 10 years with the other one? I believe it allows them to add in numerous amounts of additional features and signify to the user 'you need this version to run this'. Ever experienced the pain of trying to run a .doc in word 97 when it was created in 2003 and not saved "for 97" with nothing to give it away other than trying to open it and failing? The .docx extension would have been useful here!
Happens with other products, but as soon as Microsoft do something, they're "evil" I guess?? Phil On 29/09/2008, at 2:07 PM, 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
