Microsoft breaks Users bones by Office SP3!!

[vaithy]

If yu use Office 2003 and readily allowed with automatic updates or installedthe Office sp3..then badluck for u..

Without warning, the Microsoft Office SP3 update blocks over a dozen common document formats, including many Word, Powerpoint and Excel documents. Install the update and you can’t open the files. Why? Because they can! If anyone still trusts Microsoft with their data, this is reality’s final boarding call.
M$ istill trying to sooth the affected users by providing the information users still can use the old file format by altering the registry entries??

read the full story
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6...ml?tag=nl.e539
with regards,
vaithy

[CadCrazy]

Bull$hit $$$$$ M$ $$$$$$

[Faun]

Originally Posted by CadCrazy

Bull$hit $$$$$ M$ $$$$$$

Respect their integrity

[CadCrazy]

Respect my intergrity otherwise you ll be banned

[praka123]

LOL @those who still believes good things can come from M$$haft!

[mediator]

Originally Posted by T159

Respect their integrity

WTH . Parody at its best!!?? You guyz turned it into uncyclopedia!

Back to the topic : Why am I not surprised?

[x3060]

latest of their innovations

[vaithy]

As per their office realease the following are
Blocked file format:

* Word 11 saved by Word 12
* Word 2004 for Macintosh
* Word 11 for Windows


* Word 10 for Windows
* Word 9 for Windows
* Word X for Macintosh
* Word 2001 for Macintosh
* Word 98 for Macintosh
* Word 97 for Windows
* Word 95 Beta
* Word 95 RTM
* Word 6.0 for Macintosh
* Word 6.0 for Windows
* Word 2.x for Windows Taiwan
* Word 2.x for Windows Korea
* Word 2.x for Windows Japan
* Word 2.x for Windows BiDi
* Word 2.x for Windows
* Word 1.2 for Windows Taiwan
* Word 5.x for Macintosh
* Word 1.2 for Windows Korea
* Word 1.2 for Windows Japan
* Word 4.x for Macintosh
* Word 1.x for Windows
* All older formats

Yes you have two choices here.. don't update to sp3 or try your luck with Registry keys(i wouldn't recommend it)

vaithy

[iMav]

Back in September, Microsoft released Office 2003 SP3 - a service pack that blocked certain file formats because they were considered unsafe.

For instance, if you have Office 2003 SP3 on your system, you many not be able to open or save files that were created in older versions of Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

While this is old news, it picked steam recently because Corel Draw files are also blocked in Office 2003 and Corel is naturally not happy about it.

If you are are affected, you can easily enable support for old file formats in Office 2003 without uninstalling SP3. All you have to do is execute this small registry file (safe) and all your old document archives will open just fine in Office 2003. Thanks Bradley.

To check the version of Office 2003 installed on your system, see the file properties of WinWord.exe - if it’s 11.0.8169.0, you have SP3 already. Apply the above registry update and access to old files will be restored.

Source arre bhai kahey rote ho ...

[Voldy]

What this ?
time after time MS annoys their users