Microsoft, how I love thee

[netmouse]

I work in a mixed-platform environment. One of my officemates just sent me a document from a PC. trying to open it on my mac, I receive the following notice:

Equations saved in Word 2007 for Windows are not supported in Word 2008 for Mac. The equations will be preserved so that they display correctly in Word 2007, but will appear as placeholders in Word 2008.

That really goes way up there in my book on the most clever and helpful design policy decisions ever.

Comments

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, anytime I hear someone blather on about how they need "Office compatibility", I point out that even *OFFICE* doesn't have "Office compatibility". What they *really* mean is, "Everyone on the same version of Office, on the same OS version so nothing gets too badly fucked up. We hope."

An Office-only environment that runs on multiple OS versions (of even Windows) is going to have the same &*(%#$ issues that a Office/not-Office mixed environment is going to have.

They just don't/won't admit it.

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

yeah, and the bitch of it is, it's not like you can get Office 2007 for the mac -- word 2007 for PC and 2008 for mac is the closest you can get to having the same version on both and being up-to-date...

[plasmonicgrid.livejournal.com]

I was hinting (above) at using XP in an emulator on your mac, to run office 07.