[Discussion] DOCX [Was: can you recommend a laptop?]

[Thomas Clayton]

Well there's no reason why the Mac-folk can't ALSO be forced to use MS's DOCX format. All they have to do is purchase MS-Office '09 (??) for the Mac OS X.

Of course, MS was injoined from selling that version, also.

Tom C

--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Carl Gehr <Carl.Gehr at MCGCG.Com> wrote:

> From: Carl Gehr <Carl.Gehr at MCGCG.Com>
> Subject: Re: [Discussion] DOCX [Was: can you recommend a laptop?]
> To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 11:19 AM
> On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 08:12:04 -0700
> (PDT), Thomas Clayton wrote:
> 
> >With regard to .DOCX , everyone on this list know that
> a Federal judge has injoined MS from selling, bundling, ...
> distributing MS-Word on grounds of patent infringement? I
> "picked up" that tidbit, when led thru infoWorld some two
> weeks ago to another subject.
> 
> A subsequent message from the person who sent the DOCX file
> said that
> it was created on a 'new MAC!'
> 
> I knew about the injunction, but did not connect that to
> the DOCX type.
>  And, I've not heard any follow up about what MS plans to
> do.  I wonder
> how it impacts the [supposed] OO 3.x Beta support?
> 
> Thanks for the tip...
> Carl
> 
> 
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