Microsoft delays Office converters for Mac
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| "We had to make some choices," said Amanda Lefebvre, a marketing
| manager in Microsoft's Mac business unit. "We are continuing to
| focus our development on the completion of Office 2008.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6183588.html
Mac users should just use OpenOffice. Sun has begun working on a Mac version
which does not require x server.
Related:
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| [Microsoft:] "Because Mac Office is so much less critical to our business
| than windows, we have the flexibility to test out new things in the
| product and in its marketing before we try them on Windows."
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_6060.pdf
Crushed by the Wheels of Industry [Lockin and Greed]
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| "I'll just convert these back to the .DOC format the older versions
| use. That's most likely the version you have at school." I told her. But
| when I read the files in Word 2007 and eventually found the "Save As"
| entry in the new menu system I discovered to my horror it was grayed
| out. "This feature is only available in the full version of Office
| 2007." popped up a helpful little message. "Click here to purchase
| it." Getting increasingly worried, I decided to try a more desperate
| measure. I selected the whole file and looked for the "Copy and
| Paste" option. I might lose the formatting this way, but at least
| I'd get the text of the essay she'd written. Copy and paste were
| disabled in the same way, and with the same message.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6183476.html
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