Don't we all have one of these? Well here's mine:
WHY did Microsoft have to change all their format extensions? Instead of doc, ppt, and xls, Microsoft changed them to docx, pptx, xlsx, etc for their 2007 version. Now, if I download something in those new formats, my "old" 2003 version can't open them!
Can't you see it?! This is all a money-making ploy by Microsoft to force everyone to buy their new version. Then, in 2010, they'll come up with some other format (like idoc and ippt, since ianything is the new irage) that we'll all have to switch over again! So Microsoft proves once more that it controls the world. And I say:
Fortunately, there are sites that will convert formats for free. Like my new pal Zamzar. It'll email you a link to download the new converted file. Brilliant. Thank you for providing some control over these ridiculous formats.
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Hey cakes, do something about the recession or health care, get some controversy going.
ReplyDeleteLove dad
So frustrated ever since Google and Microsoft went to war and my family can not share calendars outlook/google....its mind numbing...$ 49.99 to companionlink, M office, hyperoffice and others and still cant talk to Outlook. ARGH!
ReplyDeleteSeriously folks Iclould is even overly complex...this should not be a deal breaker.
This is quickly approaching a Linux type situation our of discust... business uses outlook...can't talk to gmail as phone users are Google(Andriod) or Iphone.
Must we pick a monopoly or will one smart entrepreneur come up with an EASY solution...
In the end Americans don't like to be held hostage....sorry Microsoft someone comes out with an outlook replacement I'm gone...
Oh yea...
www.outllok.com
www.office.com
www.365.com
www.hotmail.com
which one do you want us to go to to still not get a solution to simply share calendars and not have to maintain two? My wife and kids abandoned outlook eons ago!
I have a sneaky suspicion Google tee'd this issue up by disallowing Google calendar sync - perhaps they will have their own excel word ppt and outlook very soon.
Sell whats left of your Microsoft stock folks the end is near.
OR better yet Microsoft put an outlook app that works on the google play store - do not and do so at your own peril...you keep me a slave to my PC when the world is gong mobile - BAD STRATEGY...oh yea I could by a Microsoft phone and Join Bill and Melinda's two kids as the other users.
Fat lady is singing on the simple stuff Microsoft...Hope you are listening (and this rant is not from an iPhone develtee - you know its getting ugly :-)