Hi all,
I seldom post to the list, but thought I would like to share some
experiences regarding Microsoft Office.
I currently work in a Institute of Higher Learning in Singapore, and my
wife works in another one here too. In hers, the school has standardized
on Office 2007 and everyone uses the new DOCX, PPTX formats. Problem is,
for part-timers like my wife, who is using a Mac, not everyone can open
the new files, even when using older MS Office suites. My wife uses the
Office 2004 for Mac suite on her PowerBook, and is unable to open any
Office2007 files. This is incredibly frustrating.
Thankfully, I was able to open the DOCX files using NeoOffice, but PPTX
remains un-openable (is there such a word?).
How do others on this list feel about this? MOE in Singapore is very
pro-Microsoft, and this is not always a good thing for those using
alternative operating systems. I feel quite repulsed as a consumer, as
we are being forced to upgrade to Office 2007 just to be able to open
the new file formats.
Of course, one could ask those Office 2007 to save the files in the
older 2003 format, but then the question comes 'why aren't you using
2007 when EVERYONE ELSE is?'.
Hmmm.
I use a Windows XP machine at my school (it's issued to us), and
unfortunately the internal intranet school systems don't work with
anything else other than Internet Explorer 6 for Windows. Doh.
What a bummer. Thankfully I'm still on Office 2003 here.
-
Mark.
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