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Story: Office 2003 update blocks older file formats
A while to wait for a truly open format
I have to say I agree with your comments Chris and pround, but I fear it will be a long long time before true open documents standards take off. There is some excellent work going on around ODF, but adoption is still low. Interesting to note that the Groklaw legal/technology blog recommends in the light of this story that users convert their files into OpenOffice, before converting them back into a format recognisable by Office 2003. As for messing with the registry, I have to agree that many users will prefer not to, and sensibly so.
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