a file format converter) in time for the launch of Office 2007. It was just too hard for the MacBU to come up with a “compatibility pack” (i.e. And Microsoft made sure that this compatibility pack would be available to users of Office 2003 for Windows as soon as Office 2007 became available. This compatibility pack enables them to open Office 2007 files directly. Of course, Microsoft knew that Office 2007 users would need to be able to exchange their Office files with other users using previous versions of Office, so they have made a “compatibility pack” available to users of Office 2003 for Windows. docx” file extension) that previous versions of Office for Windows and current and previous versions of Office for Mac OS X cannot read.
In other words, if you save a document in Word 2007 for Windows, by default it will be in a new file format (with the “. By default, these new applications use new XML-based file formats, which are not backwards compatible.
Office 2007 applications are now available for Windows, and some businesses are going to start using them. Once again, Microsoft treats Mac OS X users like second-class citizens and tries to put a positive spin on it by saying that everything is OK, as if that was sufficient to make it so.
