Hi Frustrated,
I'm not sure what your comment
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"joined-up" thinking on the part of Microsoft
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is meant to imply. With Office 2007, MS moved away from using proprietary file formats (for which it had long been criticised) to open, XML-based file formats. Doing so necessarily means that older versions of Office couldn't read the new format. To overcome that limitation, MS made file converters for the previous Office versions available for free, so that the older software could work with the new format. If any business now claims to be unable to read the new files, after the converters have been available and proven for five years, that suggests those businesses have some serious staff/IT issues to address. MS is hardly to blame for that.