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Not necessarily. There's a free compatibility pack that lets you open new docx etc documents in much older versions of Office, and in some cases, edit them. htt
by scholia 13y ago
Not necessarily. There's a free compatibility pack that lets you open new docx etc documents in much older versions of Office, and in some cases, edit them.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3
This support goes back to Windows 2000 SP4 and Office 2000, which is ancient in software terms.
There are also free viewers if you don't have a copy of Office.
In any case, Office supports dozens of file formats so you're not obliged to use the latest. You can create files in old Microsoft formats and some non-Microsoft formats.
- rbanffy 13y ago> open new docx etc documents in much older versions of Office, and in some cases, edit them Well... There is partial functionality. That makes it even more difficult to support the stack as you have to keep track of which versions of what can edit which documents. > You can create files in old Microsoft formats Try explaining that to the average Office user.
- scholia 13y agoWhat's the average cost per year of employing an average Office worker? $50.000? What's the cost per year of buying a copy of Office? (I'm still on Office 2007 and it's 2014...) People whose time is worth so little that they can't afford to update Office can spend time on workarounds instead.