Panergy Software has released “docXConverter” which promises to convert .docx files from Microsoft’s Office 2007. docXConverter reads the original docx file and converts it to RTF format; it then transmits this RTF file to a desired application with which you will be able to view the content and shape of the original file and continue working with the document.
According to Panergy, with docXConverter there is nothing lost in the conversion and nothing new to learn. Just double-click on the file and let docXConverter do the rest.
docXConverter runs on Mac OS X version 10.2 to 10.4.x. A free trial version (30-days or 20 conversions, full version) is available and a license costs US$19.95.
More info and download link here.
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And Microsloth couldn’t do this because…
I mean WTF, I understand it’s not in their best interest to do it, but c’mon. Once you achieve monopoly status (as they have) it becomes illegal to engage in certain practices (like this) designed to prevent customers from using competing products.
Where is the DOJ on this one? They are supposed to be watching and enforcing the terms of the suit against microsloth.
W.T.F.
Microsoft sure went X-crazy after OS X came out, didn’t they? XP, Xbox, docx …
There is no excuse for this not being freeware. Damn µ$oft for all eternity, but perhaps they will be coming out with a free version of this. If not, it’s really no matter to me- I’ve been µ$oft-free for several years now. Never missed ’em, either.
Microsoft owns the DOJ. Money buys you justice. Lots and lots of money buys you pretty well everything. Just ask OJ.
Office 2007 is a non-issue
Most of the business world does not see a need to upgrade to 2007 and so with stick with 2005(?)
Plus open office and neo do the job for free.
And hopefully iwork will get a much deserved shot in the arm with spread sheet capability.
I am pretty sure it will because of the strong ties with google whom has been working on a online spreadsheet app for a while, i actually palyed around with the beta and its not bad but still needed work, that was about 3 months ago.
MDN word “Able” as in we are more than able to do anything we want without MS
Didn’ M$ announce they would come out with converters as well?
Hmmm, it would be useful to see a ’round trip’ conversion. Especially to and from Pages
I thought X Files was cancelled.
No it isn’t Mulder, the smoking man is lying to you. Now forget about the shipment of illegal arms coming into New Jersey, and let’s get back to the important case of the unidentified alien aircraft found in Nevada.
“Didn’ M$ announce they would come out with converters as well?”
The MS MBU has MUCH more important priorities like really cool 3D, glowing Smileys for the next version of Messenger:mac.
They also have an alpha version of a shiny X-shaped wizard for Office:mac in the spirit of Clippy. It dances and blows kisses! And that’s pretty much all it does right now. It’s project name is iX. Cool, right?
“Microsoft owns the DOJ. Money buys you justice. Lots and lots of money buys you pretty well everything. Just ask OJ”
It’s those OJ’s that do the trick.
The interface changes in Office 2007 suck major! I wouldn’t even upgrade even if I got it free. Oh wait, I already have it from MSDN!
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Even then, I didn’t even install it on trial basis. If you don’t believe me, try the “online demo” at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101679471033.aspx for yourself!
You guys missed the point
All “DocX” is is an xml file, zipped to conserve storage space. It is infinitely superior to DOC format and completely open standard. Besides, Office 2007 should have the capability to read and write to RTF, DOC, AND DOCX
“You guys missed the point
“All ‘DocX’ is is an xml file, zipped to conserve storage space. It is infinitely superior to DOC format and completely open standard. Besides, Office 2007 should have the capability to read and write to RTF, DOC, AND DOCX”
First it’s not “infinitely superior” to .doc files. There is no truly new information or capability within .docx files. There is no significant leap in capability.
Second it is not a “completely open standard” any more than Java is a “completely open standard” or the core of OS X is a “completely open standard” (on second through the core of OS X is more of an open standard than either of the other two because of the Darwin project). Microsoft has 100% control of this supposedly “open standard”. Microsoft can change the format at will. Microsoft can even remove *any* openness at will. Microsoft has the ability to make the .docx file format 100% proprietary at any moment. This is most definitely *not* a “completely open standard”.
Yes, every version of MS Office *should* have the capability to read *and* write all three formats. They just won’t.
“Money buys you justice.”
Buster, what a great line!
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That’s right up there with one from my brother while he was a law student: “The law is just another tool of opression for the rich.”
Better still……
“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
Cicero
From what I have read, TextEdit for Leopard will be able to open and convert the new Office 2007 files into older .doc files.
WindozeKiller said, “Where is the DOJ on this one?”
With their thumbs up their butts, just like the courts. Sometimes I think that Gates looked at the Sherman Antitrust Act and thought, “Wow, what a business plan!” And then he realized that antitrust actions could be stalled for so long that the business landscape would be so changed by the time a decision could be made that the judges would give up in frustration. He implemented the plan and it worked.
Dickens wrote a novel on this approach to law, “Bleak House,” in which justice was delayed so long that justice was not done.
But with Boot Camp and Parallels, Apple will survive the attempt at lock out. And as products such as Open Office grow in market share, particularly overseas, it is Microsoft who will end up being locked out. The sword that they are wielding has two edges.
This (.docx) is not an issue for the DOJ. By the time the extremely slow legal system gets its act in motion Mac Office 2007 will be shipping. It will support .docx documents.
What <b>IS<b> an issue for the DOJ is the removal of VBA from Mac Office 2007. This is criminal if anything is.
Microsoft has spent a lot of marketing dollars getting medium to large businesses invested in creating custom documents and spreadsheets which utilize VBA. These documents often call custom applications developed internally to these medium to large companies. Just as often they are just VBA calls to do things withing the Word or Excel document or they are calls from a Word Document to and Excel sheet or such.
Up until Mac Office 2007 the Mac versions of Office could run those documents. This gave Apple a chance in the medium to large enterprises.
With Apple’s increasing market share, Apple has recently had a chance at these medium to large companies.
NOW Microsoft is pulling VBA from Mac Office in 2007. It is a blatant attempt by Microsoft to keep Macs out of medium to large companies and protect its monopoly there.
Being a monopoly is not illegal. Using that monopoly power to maintain or increase that monopoly IS illegal.
Removing VBA from Mac Office 2007 IS illegal and the DOJ should do something about it.
too bad it converts to rtf and not open document format… . rtf is old, odt should become/be the future for crossplatform blabla
Whaa Whaa, Microsoft has changed Office and now it’s incompatible. Waah Waah…
You buy a Mac, you buy incompatibility. You know this when you buy your Mac. Microsoft and Apple have a solution for you if you want 100% compatibility, Get a copy of Windows and run Office 2007 under Boot Camp.