I, Cringely » i4i http://www.cringely.com Cringely on technology Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:52:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 For eight years from 1987-95, Robert X. Cringely wrote the Notes From the Field column in InfoWorld, a weekly computer trade newspaper. He is also the author of the best-selling book Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can’t Get a Date. Robert X. Cringely no Robert X. Cringely bob@cringely.com bob@cringely.com (Robert X. Cringely) Cringely on Technology Cringely, Steve Jobs, LG, Netflix, Roku, HDTV, metal foil drive I, Cringely » i4i http://www.cringely.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.cringely.com New Improved MS Word 2007! http://www.cringely.com/2009/12/new-improved-microsoft-word-2007/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-improved-microsoft-word-2007 http://www.cringely.com/2009/12/new-improved-microsoft-word-2007/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:26:16 +0000 Robert X. Cringely http://www.cringely.com/?p=1027 Now that Microsoft has lost its appeal (ain’t that the truth) and has to pay $290 million to Canadian company i4i and take the docx file format out of Word 2007, is it just me or doesn’t that sound like an improvement to the product?

The whole point of docx didn’t seem to be to help users, but rather to make life difficult for both Microsoft competitors and for users who decided not to upgrade from the previous Word versions that used only the .doc format.

Microsoft deserves to lose this one.

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