____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Wednesday 02 January 2008 20:52 : \____
> On Jan 2, 11:53 am, The Ghost In The Machine
> <ew...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, ness...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <ness...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:27:53 -0800 (PST)
>> <1d808577-e296-428e-9327-5b5d98dc0...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>> > <Quote>
>> > "In Service Pack 3 for Office 2003, Microsoft disabled support for
>> > many older file formats. If you have old Word, Excel, 1-2-3, Quattro,
>> > or Corel Draw documents, watch out! They did this because the old
>> > formats are 'less secure', which actually makes some sense, but only
>> > if you got the files from some untrustworthy source. Naturally, they
>> > did this by default, and then documented a mind-bogglingly complex
>> > workaround (KB 938810) rather than providing a user interface for
>> > adjusting it, or even a set of awkward 'Do you really want to do
>> > this?' dialog boxes to click through. And of course because these are,
>> > after all, old file formats ... many users will encounter the problem
>> > only months or years after the software change, while groping around
>> > in dusty and now-inaccessible archives."
>> > </Quote>
>>
>> >http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/01/137257
>>
>> OK, dumb question...and hopefully "yes" is the answer.
>>
>> Are these old file formats transparently supported by OpenOffice?
>
> I don't know, but I was thinking the same thing. With one mouth
> they're trying to fight this archival argument against proprietary
> formats, and with the other they're cutting off old formats.
>
> I wrote some software once that went through several file formats.
> Every time you invent a new format, you write a translator from the
> previous to the latest format. Then, by induction, you can always
> handle all the old formats. It works if you do it right.
> Of course, that means you have to have the will to do it right.
Another important point to make (appended to a post yesterday) is that they lie
once again. They use security as a disguise and excuse for business decision.
They did this with virtualisation.
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