I’ve often met situation where my friends complained to me that the Microsoft Office 2007 automatically “upgraded” their Microsoft Office 2003 without seeking their permission. It’s not a bad thing to have something new and nice to play with. Afterall Microsoft Office 2003 has been around for “ages”, it’s boring to keep looking at it. I personally preferred something new and fresh. As for some, they preferred things that “just work”.
Anyway, the biggest reason why people wanted to continue to stick to their Microsoft Office 2003 is because of the recent makeover of the Office File Format. They called it, OpenXML. If you happen to be using the new Office, all the Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files ends with an extra “x” to their extension, i.e. (*.docx, *.xlsx, *.pptx). So it’s frustrating that you have to always remembered to Save As (*.doc, *.xls, *.ppt) because the rest of the world aren’t using Office 2007 yet.
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