One of the annoyances of doing business these days - actually, the last decade and a half or so - is MS Word. Specifically, the way the default document format keeps changing, so if you're exchanging documents with clients and such, you pretty much need to have the latest version.
I'd been getting by with a combination of OpenOffice.org and Office 2003: O2k3 for documents that arrived in .doc format and needed to be edited and returned in that format without the formatting getting disrupted, and OOo for everything else, including reading the occasional document that showed up in .docx format.
Well... one of those Office 2007 users had started sending .docx files that crashed OOo, leaving me waiting for the boss to run them through O2k7 to make them readable. This wasn't good.
And so it came to pass that, on this, the second day of its availability, I went forth and procured a copy of Office 2010 Home and Business. Yeah, the business-licensed version, since it is for business. And, being as how it's exclusively for business use, it's a business expense.
So now it's my turn to be the annoying guy who forgets to save documents in a backward-compatible format!
And, one of these days, I may even get a smartphone. Not this week, though. Got a crunch schedule, and I just blew a day and a half tracking down a horrid bug that turned out to be an offset that was out of sync between an assembly module and a header file (which puts all that time solidly in the non-billable category).
Back to the crunch now. All three of them.
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