Conspiracy? Or.... CONSPIRACY!
I had my first experience with the new file format from Microsoft’s latest Office series. Surprise surprise, it doesn’t work in anything else. Since I detest Office 2007 for its form and price tag, I went looking for a converter. http://www.docx2doc.com/ sprang up as an online option, claiming to be fast and easy. After a few seconds you’ll notice that there’s a price attached – literally there is a US$5 fee for the conversion. Even more than that, check who is behind this software.
Go on, check….
Seen it?
Ready?
Set?
It’s a Norwegian!
Now I’m not going to make any grand claims about conspiracies, how the Norwegians are profiting from this pathetic exercise my Microsoft, or that Maximoto himself is pulling the strings here. I will leave that up to the reader, who will no doubt see the truth of the Norwegian infestation themselves.
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They MUST be stopped
These Norwegians sure are taking it too far… Something must be done.
Rant follows....
The bloody OOXML specification is over 7000 pages long or something. No wonder it’s already spawning it’s own cottage industries. And this a** thinks that $5 a pop is going to be worthwhile to anyone? Sad thing is that he’ll probably make quite good income off of it from people who don’t know any better.
I think I’ve trained most of my workmates and clients to send me something I can read: plain text or PDF if there’s a really good reason for having some kind of formatting. But most people don’t have the luxury of being a bastard like this, and will have to keep buying upgrades as they get sent more and more of these abominations and are expected to be able to read/modify/print them.
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