Curves Ahead
“Microsoft uses a different format to save files with Office 2007 that, without a special viewer that will have to be downloaded, makes them unreadable with earlier versions”. Ouch, that’s going to hurt a lot of IT departments. Makes it good for the rest of the world though as we’ve been using xml for a long time. Word was able to save xml files back in 2000, nice to see the entire suite of applications have gone this route.
It’s not really that big of a deal for users of older Office software to use the newer format, but it’s different and that’s enough to cause a lot of phone calls to IT in the next few months. Elsewhere in the MS world, web sites like the W3C that decidedly have more tech people visiting than the average computer user, show for this month that Firefox is still gaining market share and Internet Exploder of all versions is barely above 60% of their visitors.