[dba-Tech] Google docs removes old Windows formats

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Sat Sep 29 19:35:05 CDT 2012


It's about time :)

- Hans

Sent from my iPhone

On 2012-09-29, at 8:48 AM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Google online docs no longer supports the older Microsoft formats. This is
> an ongoing process to update to the newer formats. Not to worry as the OSS
> formats will always be supported like ODT, RTF, ODS, CSV, SVG, PNG, JPEG,
> PDF, TXT and HTML.
> 
> Support for doc, .xls, .ppt and even support for IE8 (and older...couldn't
> be soon enough) is now gone, as of October. This effectively means if you or
> your client's are still using XP or older versions of IE, they may have
> trouble communicating.
> 
> Jim   
> 
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