It sounds like the OP was either using a bootleg copy or had no idea what he was doing:
* Because your files will be replaced by new versions that you need the new software to read. - Utter rubbish, no they won't. Nothing is converted at all by default. Not your e-mails nor your documents. * His Outlook-2000 email was reformatted to the new-and-improved Outlook-2003, and Outlook-2003 format is incompatible with everything except Outlook-2003 - Again rubbish the e-mail format in Outlook 2000 is identical in 2003. Plain Text, RTF or HTML, all standards. If you mean the PST format as another member has said it doesn't automatically convert this, you need to manually convert it. I run the old PST format in Office 2007 without any problems at all. * Once Office-2003 has been installed, it can not overwritten with an earlier version of Office. Also, you cannot remove Office-2003 and re-install Office-2000, unless you know how to hack the registry - Rubbish it works fine, it sounds like a dodgy pc of which the Windows Installer Clean Up utility should solve the problem. * And you can not easily install Office-2000 and Office-2003 on the same PC - Again rubbish, Office 2003 easily installs over the top of old versions, in what is called Hybrid mode.
Even if what you say is true I fail to see why a bit of Googling and registry fixing is slower than completely wiping the PC, and re-installing everything.
It's never wise to assume your problems are problems of the software in general.
I never rely on the printer telling me. I always wait until I can literally see it for myself. I usually turn the warning off for this very reason. I've not once found the sensor in any printer to be any good.
Vista Rocks! If you want to live in the past and use an OS 5.5 years old stick with XP. Application problems? I had two, both easily fixed by running the app as an Admin (how funny the Vista bashers haven't even tried this, it fixes 99% of app problems). Hardware problems? Not one.
It works perfectly for me, better than XP even. The memory management is worth the upgrade alone, in comparison the memory management in XP sucked big time.
There is way more to Vista than just a pretty front end (which is a bit of a gimmick).
How about limiting gun control first instead of this stupid law? Oh wait it's in the ruddy "well past it's sell by date" constitution. To everyone living outside America (and probably many Americans) it's blindly obvious why America has proportionality so many gun massacres.
I wish RealPlayer would just die. It's such atrociously bad software in every way and always has been. Dreadful quality, constant buffering, proprietary format that barely works in any other software, bloatware to the extreme and to makes matters worse crud all over your system.
In the world of cheap Broadband and Wifi the lack of a web connection isn't the biggest drawback is the reliance of a web browser acting as an Office suite. It's completely impracticable but Web 2.0 says we must do it anyway.
The show delivery needs new blood. Series 3 while not rubbish should be much better, it's a definite step down from series 1 and 2. It feels like painting by numbers.
It still wish as good as the NEW Series is that it connected better with the Classic series.
While I agree this is just the latest craze after mobile phones and television, to be fair Panorama does just state a news article and the evidence it accumilates. It is a very well made documentary, always has been and has won loads of awards.
Since when was 40 million sales lacklustre by anyone's standards?
The Word 97-2003 Document format has become the standard simply because it's what MS Office on Windows and the Mac has used for the past 10 years. Just like Microsoft's new 2007 Document format will become the new standard over the next 5 years. Why do you think ALL the other word processors (including OpenOffice) can open and save to "Microsoft's" Word format.
Like I said the Word 97-2003 Document format has become the standard by default. JPEG is not the best at retaining image quality but it's still the standard and will be for the foreseeable future.
As for why? Jealously. Lets face it, everyone would love to be as successful as Microsoft are. Apple and Linux aren't even in the same ball park, popular as they are.
Are they serious? People will simply switch off. It's a well known fact people hate adverts, they fast forward if they can and if they can't they switch over/get a cup of tea until the ads are over. There's no way I'd pay for VOD if I couldn't at least fast-forward through ad breaks.
The difference here being the King is not a dictator, Thailand has a separate government and crucially the vast majority of Thais do honestly and unreservedly love their King.
The government itself may have corrupt elements but that's not directly related to the King.
Clearly like most who're bashing Vista you've never even used it. It's miles better, memory management for starters is greatly improved. Superfetch makes applications pretty much just appear.
How about actually using Vista instead looking like an idiot and assuming a few bad reports is the norm.
It would be nice if Slash Dot took the time to source happy Vista reports, of which there are many. MS has sold thousands of Vista copies, yep and those were all from angry customers. Yeah right.
The UI for Opera sucks. Sure it has some nice features and little bits and bobs but Firefox is much better. Personally I think this is why the Opera following is so low, the UI isn't intuitive at all. Firefox also to an extent looks more like your average browser.
That and it's normal to only compare the top two, and that's IE then FF.
I'm getting used to the new interface but right now I'd say I was much quicker in the old layout. Sure I never used half the options but the ones I did use I knew exactly where they were. I'd have preferred an option to switch Classic menus back on like IE7, WMP11 and even Vista's Windows Explorer. IE7 and WMP11 I've left them off as the new menus work just as well.
I thought about the same issue and opted to leave it set to Office 2007 but in your case I would:
1. Install the Office 2007 addin for Office 97-2003, assuming the school ICT lets her/they'll install it 2. Set Office 2007 to default to the Office 97-2003 format. That will fix the problem.
Agreed it is a bit of a nuisance but that won't last more than a year or so.
Businesses inherently don't trust open source, in order to play OGG you need a third part addin, granted you do too for RealPlayer but it's more common for that to already be installed and has a known/trusted installer. Trusted that is by the industry.
Personally I wish they'd use only ASX as RealPlayer is evil, dreadful software. AFAIK you cannot stream MP3s like you can RealPlayer and ASF. As for quality it's not enough IMO. In the days of Broadband I'd like CD quality, it's not like they're restricted to the FM specification.
Thankfully they now also offer ASX so I use that from WMP.
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It sounds like the OP was either using a bootleg copy or had no idea what he was doing:
* Because your files will be replaced by new versions that you need the new software to read. - Utter rubbish, no they won't. Nothing is converted at all by default. Not your e-mails nor your documents.
* His Outlook-2000 email was reformatted to the new-and-improved Outlook-2003, and Outlook-2003 format is incompatible with everything except Outlook-2003 - Again rubbish the e-mail format in Outlook 2000 is identical in 2003. Plain Text, RTF or HTML, all standards. If you mean the PST format as another member has said it doesn't automatically convert this, you need to manually convert it. I run the old PST format in Office 2007 without any problems at all.
* Once Office-2003 has been installed, it can not overwritten with an earlier version of Office. Also, you cannot remove Office-2003 and re-install Office-2000, unless you know how to hack the registry - Rubbish it works fine, it sounds like a dodgy pc of which the Windows Installer Clean Up utility should solve the problem.
* And you can not easily install Office-2000 and Office-2003 on the same PC - Again rubbish, Office 2003 easily installs over the top of old versions, in what is called Hybrid mode.
Even if what you say is true I fail to see why a bit of Googling and registry fixing is slower than completely wiping the PC, and re-installing everything.
It's never wise to assume your problems are problems of the software in general.
OR they've got a life and don't care. Install security software, move on.
I never rely on the printer telling me. I always wait until I can literally see it for myself. I usually turn the warning off for this very reason. I've not once found the sensor in any printer to be any good.
Vista Rocks! If you want to live in the past and use an OS 5.5 years old stick with XP. Application problems? I had two, both easily fixed by running the app as an Admin (how funny the Vista bashers haven't even tried this, it fixes 99% of app problems). Hardware problems? Not one.
It works perfectly for me, better than XP even. The memory management is worth the upgrade alone, in comparison the memory management in XP sucked big time.
There is way more to Vista than just a pretty front end (which is a bit of a gimmick).
How about limiting gun control first instead of this stupid law? Oh wait it's in the ruddy "well past it's sell by date" constitution. To everyone living outside America (and probably many Americans) it's blindly obvious why America has proportionality so many gun massacres.
I wish RealPlayer would just die. It's such atrociously bad software in every way and always has been. Dreadful quality, constant buffering, proprietary format that barely works in any other software, bloatware to the extreme and to makes matters worse crud all over your system.
Just do us all a favour and go bankrupt.
In the world of cheap Broadband and Wifi the lack of a web connection isn't the biggest drawback is the reliance of a web browser acting as an Office suite. It's completely impracticable but Web 2.0 says we must do it anyway.
Oops that should be really not delivery.
The show delivery needs new blood. Series 3 while not rubbish should be much better, it's a definite step down from series 1 and 2. It feels like painting by numbers.
It still wish as good as the NEW Series is that it connected better with the Classic series.
As it supports UMS just copy the music manually or is that too difficult? Personally I can't stand syncing rubbish.
While I agree this is just the latest craze after mobile phones and television, to be fair Panorama does just state a news article and the evidence it accumilates. It is a very well made documentary, always has been and has won loads of awards.
The trouble is in reality that doesn't happen. I'd prefer dodgy subs than no subs at all.
What a dumbass law.
Since when was 40 million sales lacklustre by anyone's standards?
The Word 97-2003 Document format has become the standard simply because it's what MS Office on Windows and the Mac has used for the past 10 years. Just like Microsoft's new 2007 Document format will become the new standard over the next 5 years. Why do you think ALL the other word processors (including OpenOffice) can open and save to "Microsoft's" Word format.
Like I said the Word 97-2003 Document format has become the standard by default. JPEG is not the best at retaining image quality but it's still the standard and will be for the foreseeable future.
Vista is far from a disaster.
As for why? Jealously. Lets face it, everyone would love to be as successful as Microsoft are. Apple and Linux aren't even in the same ball park, popular as they are.
So that makes it acceptable then?
Are they serious? People will simply switch off. It's a well known fact people hate adverts, they fast forward if they can and if they can't they switch over/get a cup of tea until the ads are over. There's no way I'd pay for VOD if I couldn't at least fast-forward through ad breaks.
The difference here being the King is not a dictator, Thailand has a separate government and crucially the vast majority of Thais do honestly and unreservedly love their King.
The government itself may have corrupt elements but that's not directly related to the King.
Clearly like most who're bashing Vista you've never even used it. It's miles better, memory management for starters is greatly improved. Superfetch makes applications pretty much just appear.
How about actually using Vista instead looking like an idiot and assuming a few bad reports is the norm.
It would be nice if Slash Dot took the time to source happy Vista reports, of which there are many. MS has sold thousands of Vista copies, yep and those were all from angry customers. Yeah right.
I find it strange no other music body in the world goes to this length.
The UI for Opera sucks. Sure it has some nice features and little bits and bobs but Firefox is much better. Personally I think this is why the Opera following is so low, the UI isn't intuitive at all. Firefox also to an extent looks more like your average browser.
That and it's normal to only compare the top two, and that's IE then FF.
Do Apple although this.
It's still otherwise a locked format and one you still need to mess around converting.
RibbonCustomizer works within the new Office 2007 layout instead of against it, it looks pretty neat.
I'm getting used to the new interface but right now I'd say I was much quicker in the old layout. Sure I never used half the options but the ones I did use I knew exactly where they were. I'd have preferred an option to switch Classic menus back on like IE7, WMP11 and even Vista's Windows Explorer. IE7 and WMP11 I've left them off as the new menus work just as well.
I thought about the same issue and opted to leave it set to Office 2007 but in your case I would:
1. Install the Office 2007 addin for Office 97-2003, assuming the school ICT lets her/they'll install it
2. Set Office 2007 to default to the Office 97-2003 format. That will fix the problem.
Agreed it is a bit of a nuisance but that won't last more than a year or so.
Businesses inherently don't trust open source, in order to play OGG you need a third part addin, granted you do too for RealPlayer but it's more common for that to already be installed and has a known/trusted installer. Trusted that is by the industry.
Personally I wish they'd use only ASX as RealPlayer is evil, dreadful software. AFAIK you cannot stream MP3s like you can RealPlayer and ASF. As for quality it's not enough IMO. In the days of Broadband I'd like CD quality, it's not like they're restricted to the FM specification.
Thankfully they now also offer ASX so I use that from WMP.