Microsoft's new INCOMPATIBLE document "standard" (was: ...attachment...) Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 11:47 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (3617 messages posted) |The attachment is a docx. file. | Terry Contact the person (Heh--caught myself. I almost said "moron".) who sent you this. Tell him to change the default settings in his brand new Micro$oft crapware so that it saves documents in an old format --one that can be read BY ANYONE who has Office 95. In addition, make a point of telling him how he is alienating people with his current ignorant behavior. This (OOXML thing) is EXACTLY the kind of thing I hate about Microsoft: They keep moving the goal line so that you are on an endless treadmill of paying them for needless updates. OOXML (DOCX, XLSX,...) is another steaming pile from Microsoft. The glaring lack of technical quality and the outright corruption associated with it have made this pseudo-standard a huge black eye for Microsoft. cache of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML#Investigation_of_Microsoft_by_the_European_Commission The fact that the corporate media hasn't covered this corrupt process points to their worthlessness. Written in response to: re: opening attachments in Outlook Express 6.0 (Terry: Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 4:26 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] opening attachments in Outlook Express 6.0 (Terry: Fri, Apr 11, 2008, 6:22 pm) re: opening attachments in Outlook Express 6.0 (C K: Fri, Apr 11, 2008, 7:15 pm) re: opening attachments in Outlook Express 6.0 (Terry: Sat, Apr 12, 2008, 4:26 am) Microsoft's new INCOMPATIBLE document "standard" (was: ...attachment...) (gewg_: Sat, Apr 12, 2008, 11:47 am) OpenOffice.org: A FREE way to open M$ documents (was: ...attachments...) (gewg_: Sat, Apr 12, 2008, 11:51 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum