[Sussex] Microsoft actively promoting OpenOffice.org

[Desmond Armstrong]

This is normal behaviour for Microsoft.
It makes a lot of marketing sense, it forces a lot of people to waste 
their money (giving it to MS) and only after a while do they put patch 
in to allow the reading of older MS documents.
MS do it every time they introduce new version of Office.
>
> Say that again.with Micro$oft Office 2003 with it SP3, it will not
> open files from previous versions of Office. You only saviour will be
> OpenOffice.Org
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/02/xp_service_pack/
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938810/en-us
>   
Full marks to OpenOffice.org!
Cor! the workaround looks involved so OpenOffice.org it is. Now how 
shall we use the unexpected bonus we have just made?