We've all seen the evolution of Microsoft Office and its dominance in the home and business market. I see so many smart people blindly accepting whatever crap Redmond dishes out and it frustrates me. I can live with Windows but what concerns me most is why Microsoft won't support an open document format. (We know they can but won't) I just filled out an application in a .docx format that I opened and edited fine in OpenOffice but when I tried to re-open it, it was formatted all wrong and couldn't be used. A non-technical person would assume that OpenOffice is garbage and that their programmers are stupid which we all know in not true. I know Microsoft inserts code into its documents that is only understood by Office. It's basically encripted. I could give similar examples with Frontpage vs. Mozilla's Seamonky editing html. So if we play this through for 5-10yrs or so.... so that only .docx files are standard... until all older versions of Office are obsolete and not used by anyone anymore... where does that leave us?
I'm just terribly frustrated.
I'm just terribly frustrated.
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