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Did they announce this previously or are they giving just a 5 day notice(only 3 working days given the weekend)? A lot of users are going to get irritated at h

Did they announce this previously or are they giving just a 5 day notice(only 3 working days given the weekend)? A lot of users are going to get irritated at having to change their workflow to have a copy of Office to re-save documents before uploading them. If you need to have a copy of Office around to save them in the new format, then some of the savings by using Google Apps is diminished.

cooldeal 14y ago
Welcome to the cloud, where you don't have the option of running old versions to tide through the transition and in which anything you don't control can be pulled from under your feet with little or no notice. That's the thought that goes through my mind when I hear the "Yay, cloud!" line from the following MS ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h8f5AOCNcs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h8f5AOCNcs
- Evbn 14y ago
  Read the article and the tryoll again.
jlgreco 14y ago
The article as far as I can tell does not say anything about importing those formats, only that they are ending support for exporting them. How many people are both "modern" enough to be using Google Docs, but sufficiently out of date that they need to export the old formats? I am guessing sufficiently few that Google doesn't really care about them. If their copy of Office is that old, how old is their browser? Can their browser even supported by Google Docs?
- vajrabum 14y ago
  You forgot to ask, how many people need to export to a specific older version format to support their colleagues or customers.
  - jlgreco 14y ago
    Fair point, but I am guessing the answer again is "few". Most people probably send out PDFs if the technology situation of the receiver is that rocky.
    - ygra 14y ago
      Most technical-minded people who are aware of the distinction between the various formats. I didn't get the impression that Google Docs was only used by those. We probably won't see an outcry, though, because the people getting bitten by the change (and there are lots of smaller businesses who don't really see a need to upgrade to current Office versions) aren't that vocal on the net.

cooldeal 14y ago

Welcome to the cloud, where you don't have the option of running old versions to tide through the transition and in which anything you don't control can be pulled from under your feet with little or no notice. That's the thought that goes through my mind when I hear the "Yay, cloud!" line from the following MS ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h8f5AOCNcs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h8f5AOCNcs

Evbn 14y ago
Read the article and the tryoll again.

jlgreco 14y ago

The article as far as I can tell does not say anything about importing those formats, only that they are ending support for exporting them. How many people are both "modern" enough to be using Google Docs, but sufficiently out of date that they need to export the old formats? I am guessing sufficiently few that Google doesn't really care about them. If their copy of Office is that old, how old is their browser? Can their browser even supported by Google Docs?

vajrabum 14y ago
You forgot to ask, how many people need to export to a specific older version format to support their colleagues or customers.
- jlgreco 14y ago
  Fair point, but I am guessing the answer again is "few". Most people probably send out PDFs if the technology situation of the receiver is that rocky.
  - ygra 14y ago
    Most technical-minded people who are aware of the distinction between the various formats. I didn't get the impression that Google Docs was only used by those. We probably won't see an outcry, though, because the people getting bitten by the change (and there are lots of smaller businesses who don't really see a need to upgrade to current Office versions) aren't that vocal on the net.