![]() That seems like a good thing, to the extent that Microsoft is embracing open standards and allowing other software products to interact with Office files more easily. The plain-text "Open XML" format aims to solve those problems and allows any application that supports XML (even non-Microsoft ones) to access and manipulate data in the new file format. Apparently those old proprietary binary (non-human-readable) files were no longer able to meet the challenges of moving data between applications, standards-based computing, and playing nice with firewalls. The cynical might assume that Microsoft is trying to persuade people to spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade to Office 2007, but Microsoft claims a different motive. Files created with the Office 2007 versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint will not be compatible with older versions of Office software, and a converter will be required to open them. In their newest release of Microsoft Office, the nice folks in Redmond have changed the way that Office 2007 saves documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The march of progress has trampled yet another set of innocent bystanders. ![]()
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