 plencnerbPremium
join:2000-09-25
Elgin, IL
kudos:1 | reply to OZO
No, he does mean "a". I've added the bold part to the quote below
said by OZO:How it works? It's actually very simple. Someone gets the latest version (with a new computer, as a promotion, etc.), which makes documents in incompatible format and sends his document to another user (me). Now I have a choice: a) ask the author to make it in old compatible format and resend it to me; b) go and buy the new version, that works with the new format directly; c) install courtesy compatibility pack, that allows to open documents in the new format
In reply to that, I do agree that one item was a big discussion at the company I used to work for. Most of the discussion was around what to do during the roll-out of Office 2010. For my company, we had over 8,000 users located in 30 offices worldwide. If we started in Europe, someone could send a person in Asia a word document that they could not read due to the format differences. So, the question we had to ask ourselves was, do we modify the install of office to use the old format, and then apply some kind of hack to the registry to over 8,000 machines to change it back to default once the roll out was complete, or do we make sure to push the Office Compatibility Pack first, and then deploy Office 2010 as it should be? We also talked about the idea of trying to educate the end users to modify the default behavior of saving the file to either the new (.DOCX) or the old (.DOC). However, in the time it would have taken us to educate our user base, we could have went with one of our other options and saved a lot of time, money, and effort.
It really all depends on your own environment, and what each company does with Office.
For those that only use Word to write company memos, Office 2003 is probably the best thing for them. However, if you have a business that does a lot of back-end stuff with Exchange, SharePoint, and Outlook, then you may have to upgrade everyone to the new version. Sure, the secretary of the CEO may not ever use all that, and may be totally fine writing the memo's for the CEO in Office 2003, but you have to look at the big picture. She is not the only user, and if your company has a large part of their business built on the back end of Office, then when the back end changes, you have to upgrade the front end to support it.
--Brian
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