email from SLDS Principal - South London Dance Studios

[the-e-dealer]

There is a free word viewer

[El Pibe]

fair point.

Let me rephrase that.

In order to view a docx you would require word 2010 with its lack of backward compatability and its useless and functionally opaque 'ribbon' thing.

Mind you there's nothing in that document that couldn't be presented in good old fashioned ascii in a txt file.

[the-e-dealer]

Microsoft Backward! yes! What a bunch of idiots. Really clever move making all your office product's files incompatible. And who are doing well? Apple - ok they have proprietary formats but at least there is cross product /release compatibility.

[El Pibe]

Microsoft make a lot of mistakes but then they have a HUGE suite of products.

I'm not a big fan of office 2010, but sometimes if you need to do a leap forward you might need to make a break with the past (though in this case I think they got it very wrong, part of their weird obsession with xml).

On the whole I'm ambivalent about them, they also get a lot, on balance, right (though with something like SQL Server it took them 20 years to get there).

But for all the Evilcorp mud that gets thrown at them, Jobs cut Apple's outreach programs and much oif their charitable activity, and Gates gave away 30 billion dollars, so credit where it's due.

And the only other thing I have to say is iTunes *shudders*

[*Bob*]

Opens on a Mac in Office '08

How comes?

[the-e-dealer]

And I hate Apple and its marketing hype and fashionistas with the latest Eye Pad yet ......

[El Pibe]

I have literally no idea.

Perhaps it was patched to allow this?

ETA - Aah, apparently the nnnX format was introduced in Office 2007.

[the-e-dealer]

If Apple can make its products work with all of Microsoft's and Microsoft can't then Really MS have a lot of catching up to do! (PS Dont mention Dancing)

[*Bob*]

I think we're going to have to give-in and get an iPad tomorrow.

Enough is enough.

[El Pibe]

Ha! Iiiiiii won thaaat one!!!!!!!

[the-e-dealer]

Where did you learn that victory dance?

[El Pibe]

Actually I nicked it from the ingracious Best Man speech from The League of Gentlemen.

"And then there was the time our mums both got cancer. My mum got better and your mum died. Iiiiiii won thaaat one!!!!!!!"

[MrBen]

Just don't mention Office for Mac 2011 - better than 08 but still gives me too many niggles to be smooth.

[the-e-dealer]

I am going back to MS

[giggirl]

So it looks like Miss Zoe has now threatened the forum. What a classy woman (NOT).

[Saffron]

Hahaha I love this Forum!

Yes, would have looked better if she'd simply replied with her own side of the story!!

Would be soooo funny if her letter went viral (teehee). Hey is there a FB site for it yet?

;-)

[helena handbasket]

I would love to see the email she sent to admin........

[the-e-dealer]

I wonder where one would put it if one had a copy?