From reading the comments to this article, it is very clear that MSFT PR and Marketing folks have been very very busy.
Fact is, you do not need to upgrade *at all*. And, for most businesses, they do not need to use or submit or receive *any* Microsoft documents (Word, Excel, etc.) at all!
Nothing makes Microsoft Office 2007 worth the upgrade cost, absolutely nothing.
My company would soundly rejects *any* Word document from others and we do not send them out to others either.
It is either RTF or, recently, ODT. That's it.
If it is a document that is not to be edited, it is PDF, period.
The main reasons are the inherent insecurity of Microsoft Office products *and* the that we want our documents accessible at any time, from this day forward, whether we have the original applaction they were created in or not.
We will be standardizing on ODT and PDF as our only documents that we will interchange with other businesses shortly.
Microsoft can go pound sand down a rat hole for all we care.
Barney is the Anti-Christ!
I have this information from a highly reliable source...
A security guard in front of a Barney display in the Las Vegas Hilton circa 1989. We saw the Barney display, said "No, not Barney!" and made the sign of the cross. The security guard calls us over and, after looking around to ensure no one else could hear whispered this information to us.
Needless to say, we were ROFLOAO (rolling on the floor laughing our a__es off).
This is not, even remotely, "hard sell".
This is "use scare tactics and some percentage of our customers will just roll over and throw money at us to kee the 'bad thing' away".
It fargin' stinks, this should be looked into by appropriate authorities.
They asked for **documentation** of protocols so that others can fully interoperate with Windows servers. Period.
2. Protocols in this sense are not really "secret", some have already been reverse engineered.
So, in essense, Microsoft gives up precious little.
Microsoft just needs to pony up with the documentation, the EU will have some vendors picked at random to test the protocol documentation and if good, then Microsoft gets a pass. If not good, Microsoft gets fined again or something more drastic till they comply.
But issue an order that the data be given in a comma-delimited or tab-delimited format, while you then do everything possible (State goverment-wise) to get them to hand over the original format files and pass regulations that mandate that such formats be open and all data captured be released to citizens directly (via a web site) for immediate download and review. Period.
Diebold is just being an a__hat over this, and they should be smacked down rapidly, fargin' iceholes.
Do not recall exactly what it did, but got a message "This computer is now stoned" or something like that, system would eventually crash. I believe it started writing out data to the hard drive until no more could be written, system would die. This was 1988 or so.
Infected floppies (boot sector stuff), so had to create and check new boot floppies on another un-infected system. Got the virus handed and floppies that were used for booting and "sneaker net" were all checked and handled as needed. Never had or saw it again after that one time.
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From reading the comments to this article, it is very clear that MSFT PR and Marketing folks have been very very busy. Fact is, you do not need to upgrade *at all*. And, for most businesses, they do not need to use or submit or receive *any* Microsoft documents (Word, Excel, etc.) at all! Nothing makes Microsoft Office 2007 worth the upgrade cost, absolutely nothing.
Are you or have you ever been an employee, executive, stock holder or done PR and Marketing work for Microsoft?
My company would soundly rejects *any* Word document from others and we do not send them out to others either.
It is either RTF or, recently, ODT. That's it.
If it is a document that is not to be edited, it is PDF, period.
The main reasons are the inherent insecurity of Microsoft Office products *and* the that we want our documents accessible at any time, from this day forward, whether we have the original applaction they were created in or not.
We will be standardizing on ODT and PDF as our only documents that we will interchange with other businesses shortly.
Microsoft can go pound sand down a rat hole for all we care.
Barney is the Anti-Christ! I have this information from a highly reliable source... A security guard in front of a Barney display in the Las Vegas Hilton circa 1989. We saw the Barney display, said "No, not Barney!" and made the sign of the cross. The security guard calls us over and, after looking around to ensure no one else could hear whispered this information to us. Needless to say, we were ROFLOAO (rolling on the floor laughing our a__es off).
That Vista was Windows XP SP3... guess it is delayed again. :P
Twinking characters is not even remotely close to cheating. Sorry.
Umm, me.
I have been an Earthlink customer for over ten years now, been on DSL with them for seven.
This is not, even remotely, "hard sell". This is "use scare tactics and some percentage of our customers will just roll over and throw money at us to kee the 'bad thing' away". It fargin' stinks, this should be looked into by appropriate authorities.
Well, I think more than one person at IBM called SCOX a "poo poo head".
But the use of very derogatory "bunch of fscking 'tars" is what really ruffled SCOX's panties.
1. The EU did not ask for source code.
They asked for **documentation** of protocols so that others can fully interoperate with Windows servers. Period.
2. Protocols in this sense are not really "secret", some have already been reverse engineered.
So, in essense, Microsoft gives up precious little.
Microsoft just needs to pony up with the documentation, the EU will have some vendors picked at random to test the protocol documentation and if good, then Microsoft gets a pass. If not good, Microsoft gets fined again or something more drastic till they comply.
I say, fine, don't releast that file format.
But issue an order that the data be given in a comma-delimited or tab-delimited format, while you then do everything possible (State goverment-wise) to get them to hand over the original format files and pass regulations that mandate that such formats be open and all data captured be released to citizens directly (via a web site) for immediate download and review. Period.
Diebold is just being an a__hat over this, and they should be smacked down rapidly, fargin' iceholes.
My first was the "Stoned" virus.
Do not recall exactly what it did, but got a message "This computer is now stoned" or something like that, system would eventually crash. I believe it started writing out data to the hard drive until no more could be written, system would die. This was 1988 or so.
Infected floppies (boot sector stuff), so had to create and check new boot floppies on another un-infected system. Got the virus handed and floppies that were used for booting and "sneaker net" were all checked and handled as needed. Never had or saw it again after that one time.
Google: I'll make you a deal.
Gub'ment: O.K., let's hear it.
Google: You give me your request, and I give you the finger. You savvy?