How Do You Spell Relief? I Spell It Office 2000 "emanon" <emanon[ at ]erehwon.com> 4/6/2007 11:45:06 AM Goodbye Office 2007! At last, I am once again 100% compatible with the rest of my applications and co-workers. My PDA talks to Outlook, my phone talks to Outlook, all my Adobe apps talk to the rest of Office and I can click an create an Adobe Acrobat 8.x PDF from any piece of Office Suite. Why wouldn't all these things work with Office 2007? Money! Cha-Ching! Hear the cash register ring! Microsoft wanted me to go buy a new Windows enabled phone, a Windows enabled PDA and live without my bread 'n' butter work-a-day applications that I need to stay in business, namely Creative Suite. I was not a groove user, but you can throw that in there as well. Previous users are complaining they are being forced into buying the Microsoft version because nothing in the previous independent version works with the new suite either! Office 2007 is a giant step backwards in interoperability! Well what do you expect from the people forcing Vista down everybody's throat.

Re: How Do You Spell Relief? I Spell It Office 2000 "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" <MillyS[ at ]donteventhinkaboutmailingmeatmvps.org> 4/6/2007 5:07:50 PM Sorry - but the blame lies at the feet of the application makers (Adobe) who have decided not to create versions compatible with Office 2007 and Windows Vista. B*tch all you want about Microsoft, but they do not control what other software makers produce. -- Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, emanon asked: | Goodbye Office 2007! | | At last, I am once again 100% compatible with the rest of my | applications and co-workers. My PDA talks to Outlook, my phone talks | to Outlook, all my Adobe apps talk to the rest of Office and I can | click an create an Adobe Acrobat 8.x PDF from any piece of Office | Suite. | | Why wouldn't all these things work with Office 2007? Money! | | Cha-Ching! Hear the cash register ring! | | Microsoft wanted me to go buy a new Windows enabled phone, a Windows | enabled PDA and live without my bread 'n' butter work-a-day | applications that I need to stay in business, namely Creative Suite. | I was not a groove user, but you can throw that in there as well. | Previous users are complaining they are being forced into buying the | Microsoft version because nothing in the previous independent version | works with the new suite either! | | Office 2007 is a giant step backwards in interoperability! Well what | do you expect from the people forcing Vista down everybody's throat.

Re: How Do You Spell Relief? I Spell It Office 2000 ANONYMOUS <ANONYMOUS[ at ]NEWSGROUPS.COM> 4/6/2007 8:30:01 PM Calm down emanon. MS makes one type of product and other companies make their own type of products. It is not up to MS to make its products compatible with all the products out their in the wild. It is up to the product makers to make sure its products are compatible with de facto industry standard OS and Office packages!!. Don't you think it makes sense for companies to make sure its products are compatible rather than expecting MS to make sure its products are compatible with 1000s of products out their? It is virtually impossible for one company to take this responsibility and moreover, if it does then anti-trust law suits will stop them from doing so. Do you remember what happens to pdf convertibility in office 2007? MS was forced to remove it because adobe objected to it!! You really need to realistic about your expectations!! Hope this helps. emanon wrote: [Quoted Text] > > Goodbye Office 2007! > > At last, I am once again 100% compatible with the rest of my applications > and co-workers. My PDA talks to Outlook, my phone talks to Outlook, all my > Adobe apps talk to the rest of Office and I can click an create an Adobe > Acrobat 8.x PDF from any piece of Office Suite. > > Why wouldn't all these things work with Office 2007? Money! > > Cha-Ching! Hear the cash register ring! > > Microsoft wanted me to go buy a new Windows enabled phone, a Windows > enabled PDA and live without my bread 'n' butter work-a-day applications > that I need to stay in business, namely Creative Suite. I was not a groove > user, but you can throw that in there as well. Previous users are > complaining they are being forced into buying the Microsoft version because > nothing in the previous independent version works with the new suite either! > > Office 2007 is a giant step backwards in interoperability! Well what do you > expect from the people forcing Vista down everybody's throat.