Microsoft says file converter for Office 2007 in the works

Just so you know, there's already a website where you can upload a docx file and have it converted to .txt.

http://docx-converter.com/

Thanks JD for clarifying the meaning of "to grandfather". By doing so you have shown that you incorrectly used the word and have just pwnd yourself.

How about Pages and Keynote? I would love to see everyone use the same format so I don't have to worry about someone along the line changing applications.

Vendor lock-in is a b!tch.

Glad it's coming.

sad sad sad...

microsoft is even not willing to finish a converter the same day office 2007 is available...

their "new" xml format is not a sudden change of the month. they prepared it for more of one year.

they had AAAaaaall time to prepare. they simply don't want. they simply want to show the windows office version is the Real Stuff, the Real Premium Juicy Orangy Experience of the Sun.

nothing else. and the whole "open" standard format by ecma is a ugly insidious _joke_.
in the end , it changes _nothing_ for developpers. too much control by microsoft, too much limits, too much cumbersome to add that format in a competitive product. (to summarize : the main argument is microsoft is not bound to their ecma standardisation)

That BU is a joke. They have had 2 years to plan on the change over to XML, and now we have to wait 3-4 MONTHS for a solution. What a joke.
And make the messenger the same the windows version. The Mac version is a joke...

How long have they known about this? A 4 to 5 month wait for a file convertor is unacceptable.

from m-w.com

Main Entry: grandfather (clause)
Function: transitive verb
: to permit to continue under a grandfather clause
: a clause creating an exemption based on circumstances previously existing;

haha JD got pwnd by gramps

As a grandfather, I take serious issue with the implications of the above usage: "to grandfather out old licenses". It is demeaning enough to be associated with the correct way in which 'grandfather' is used as a verb, which is pretty much the opposite of extirpation. You could probably look it up.