http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/05/17/noting-adoption-of-odf/ Information, Law, and the Law of Information Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:08:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/05/17/noting-adoption-of-odf/comment-page-1/#comment-699 Info/Law » The Microsoft Lock-In at Top Law Reviews Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:52:48 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/05/17/noting-adoption-of-odf/#comment-699 [...] [UPDATES: (1) an important caveat I should have included at the outset — assuming, of course, that the original document was created with a version of Word that is compatible with the version with which the user is attempting to open it. One of the major complaints about proprietary software in general, and Word in particular, has been that current versions of Word cannot open documents saved with earlier versions of Word itself beyond a certain point. (2) Derek noted the introduction of ODF support in Lotus Notes here. [...] [...] [UPDATES: (1) an important caveat I should have included at the outset — assuming, of course, that the original document was created with a version of Word that is compatible with the version with which the user is attempting to open it. One of the major complaints about proprietary software in general, and Word in particular, has been that current versions of Word cannot open documents saved with earlier versions of Word itself beyond a certain point. (2) Derek noted the introduction of ODF support in Lotus Notes here. [...]

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