Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 13, 2004 02:03 AM
My office mainly uses Office97. One person has OfficeXP and it works mostly with all the Office97 files, there are formating issues but no too bad.
We have many common files on the file server that we all write to. About 2 months ago, office document after office document became broken. We lost a lot of work hours on trying to fix the problem and redoing lost work. But up until about two weeks ago, nothing we did seemed to make a difference. One day the file would be ok, the next it was toast.
We called a meeting specifically to talk about what was going on. We knew it wasn't a virus. We knew we weren't being hacked. What we thought it was, was our disgruntled mill-wright who doesn't know that much about computers but uses some of those files that constantly became corrupted. We were pretty sure he was sabotaging them.
The meeting included our HR-Director, who wasn't part of our trouble-shooting process up until this meeting. Right at the start of the meeting, after we explained these files were being corrupted and we needed to get to the root of the problem, the HR guy says, "I don't have any problems opening those files at all. In fact, I was wondering why you guys kept deleting any changes I made to them as soon as I made them."
We were all like, "What?!"
"Yeah, I've been looking at those files and doing some grammer correction, and just checking up to see where you guys are at." He is also faily new, and was reading what we were doing so he could be more familure with what we did.
Now we had a viable lead. Investigating brought out that he bought a laptop that had Office2003 on it. And all he had to do was OPEN the file and it was no longer usable under Office97, and if corrections were made, unusable under OfficeXP.
If Office2003 isn't backward compatible to Office97, then what's the point? Breaking compatiblity? In business? How smart is that?
This is why MS is bad people. I can see they want to make tech better, and having the yoke of having to deal with old tech a pain in the rump. But in business, document's life spans can be decades, and making digital office documents change formats every few years is just plain unacceptable.
Office2003 is a dud in my opinion. It offers nothing other than it guarantees you will be taking ibuprofen a lot more in your future.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 13, 2004 02:03 AMWe have many common files on the file server that we all write to. About 2 months ago, office document after office document became broken. We lost a lot of work hours on trying to fix the problem and redoing lost work. But up until about two weeks ago, nothing we did seemed to make a difference. One day the file would be ok, the next it was toast.
We called a meeting specifically to talk about what was going on. We knew it wasn't a virus. We knew we weren't being hacked. What we thought it was, was our disgruntled mill-wright who doesn't know that much about computers but uses some of those files that constantly became corrupted. We were pretty sure he was sabotaging them.
The meeting included our HR-Director, who wasn't part of our trouble-shooting process up until this meeting. Right at the start of the meeting, after we explained these files were being corrupted and we needed to get to the root of the problem, the HR guy says, "I don't have any problems opening those files at all. In fact, I was wondering why you guys kept deleting any changes I made to them as soon as I made them."
We were all like, "What?!"
"Yeah, I've been looking at those files and doing some grammer correction, and just checking up to see where you guys are at." He is also faily new, and was reading what we were doing so he could be more familure with what we did.
Now we had a viable lead. Investigating brought out that he bought a laptop that had Office2003 on it. And all he had to do was OPEN the file and it was no longer usable under Office97, and if corrections were made, unusable under OfficeXP.
If Office2003 isn't backward compatible to Office97, then what's the point? Breaking compatiblity? In business? How smart is that?
This is why MS is bad people. I can see they want to make tech better, and having the yoke of having to deal with old tech a pain in the rump. But in business, document's life spans can be decades, and making digital office documents change formats every few years is just plain unacceptable.
Office2003 is a dud in my opinion. It offers nothing other than it guarantees you will be taking ibuprofen a lot more in your future.
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