>  I have for long wondered why companies are so eager to tie their vital
> documents to a closed proprietary format owned by one company who has sole
> control on when and how the format is supported.

Well if worst comes to worst, you just don't install the newer version of 
the software.  Anyway I don't think MS would last long if their latest 
version of Word didn't allow imports from previous versions - I wouldn't 
worry.

And if worst comes to absolute worse (like Word2009 only allows you to open 
Word2009 files and nothing else) then you'd probably stick with Word2008 
until MS released an update (along with every other company in the world) or 
start using OpenOffice (which someone would no doubt have written a very 
good Word2008 importer for).

The bottom line is the benefits of using MS Office far outweigh any risk of 
all your documents suddenly becoming unusable.

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