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# I only upgraded from 7 four months ago :)
My personal philosophy (apply this as you will to software, mobile phones, cars etc): IF IT DOES THE JOB, THEN YOU DON'T NEED A NEW ONE!
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:12, archived)
# but if your clients keep sending you artwork created in the very latest version
you have to keep up

(really only applies to InDesign and Illustrator)
(I helped save b3ta! bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon., Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:16, archived)
# Bloody .docx...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:17, archived)
# Yes, what the hell is that all about? I keep getting sent those, and .xlsx
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:19, archived)
# it is the utter filth
that is office 2007, a product so vile someone at microsoft should have executed the entire development team.
2003 worked ok, why fuck it up and make it unusable for everyone?
(prostheses, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:22, archived)
# This is Microsoft we're talking about
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:24, archived)
# ^ this with bells on.
Awful, awful program with no new functionality. Purely to make a quick buck. Uninstalled it from my new work laptop and put 2003 back on. I couldn't be arsed to wait to download the plugin for back-compatibility, so I just use Open Office to open them. I much prefer Open Office, just a shame so few people use it. It's free, FFS...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:43, archived)
# Ah, the special 'open, XML based file format'
that is completely proprietorial. Bless their little cotton socks.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:54, archived)
# The only reason I upgraded in the end
it didn't look very professional me asking people to back-save things all the time :(
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:18, archived)
# exactly
can you backsave please -we don't have CS5


er - can you backsave again please -I can't open CS4 docs...

Also now got Office 2011 - so the .docx .xlsx .pptx issues are a thing of the past
(I helped save b3ta! bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon., Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:31, archived)
# TELL ME MORE, HU-MAN.
How so?
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:44, archived)
# I don't have that problem
But now you say that it may become a problem next month :O
(I helped save b3ta! XLVII .uk, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:19, archived)
# Quite...
(I helped save b3ta! XLVII .uk, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:20, archived)