>
> > Microsoft released service pack 3 for Office 2003, which disables the
> > opening of many file types including Word and Excel 97.  The KB
> > article describing this is kb 938810.  On the surface this appears to be
> a
> > records management nightmare.
>
> There were a number of articles online on this topic and MS has
> apparently reversed itself on this topic. This article
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1076&tag=nl.e622 is a good overview
> and points to the current state.



Even this article (cited by Patrick) makes it clear that the "path forward"
is very unclear.   The whole concept about users, be it at a Corporate,
Group, or Individual level need to make changes to the .reg files to be able
to access their older M$ stuff is ludicrous.

If you read through many of the user comments submitted to the ZDNet
article, you'll see I'm not the only one to draw this conclusion.  The
article also correctly points out that doing this prior to the Open Office
XML ISO format vote in February wasn't exactly the smartest possible move
for Micr$loth to make!
http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1070

Anyone else care to play through on this hole?

Larry

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Larry Medina
Danville, CA
RIM Professional since 1972

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