Comments on: Microsoft Decides You Don’t Need Your Old Data

By: Yes, Outlook is Broken, but Who Cares? Do You Really Want More Inbox Spam? | CloudAve

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:58:19 +0000

[...] responded, claiming The Power of Word in Outlook. To me this note sounds classic Microsoft: this is what we decided, now go STFU. But let’s look beyond the [...]

By: Your Data May Be So Safe Even You Can’t Access It | CloudAve

Your Data May Be So Safe Even You Can’t Access It | CloudAve — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:10:14 +0000

[...] Pack 3 to Microsoft Office 2003 blocked several older formats, including their very own – yes that means Word, Excel, Powerpoint docs you may very well have on [...]

By: Have You Seen My Stapler? - Viral Tarpara's Blog : Office 2003 SP3 - The Facts and Fiction

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:45:11 +0000

[...] Permanent Link to Microsoft Decides You Don’t Need Your Old Data – Zoli Erdos [...]

By: Viral Tarpara

Viral Tarpara — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:33:52 +0000

By default only these Microsoft formats are blocked:
Word 1.x for Windows 33
Word 4.x for Macintosh 33
Word 1.2 for Windows Japan 34
Word 1.2 for Windows Korea 35
Word 5.x for Macintosh 35
Word 1.2 for Windows Taiwan 36
Word 2.x for Windows 45
Word 2.x for Windows BiDi 46
Word 2.x for Windows Japan 46
Word 2.x for Windows Korea 47
Word 2.x for Windows Taiwan 48

Just wanted to bring the facts to your attention.
the KB support article provides an easy to use ADM file that will allow you/your IT admin restore functionality if you desire.

By: Software as Services mobile edition

Software as Services mobile edition — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:51:35 +0000

[...] with its users that it will maintain backwards compatibility with earlier file formats. Zoli Erdos spells out the implications for users: “Remember, this isn’t simply abandoning users still running pre-historic versions of [...]

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:27:23 +0000

Thanks, fixed it.

By: Viral Tarpara

Viral Tarpara — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:15:56 +0000

Your article has an factual error, SP3 was released in September 17th 2007, not in December.

By: Microsoft

Microsoft — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:17:17 +0000

[...] Microsoft Decides You Don’t Need Your Old Data [...]

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:54:31 +0000

There’s no comparison here: you’re talking about media that became obsolete. All of your data from those drives could easily be transferred to your hard disk or wherever you wanted.

The “obsolete” file formats we’re talking about can not be easily itentified and converted. You have to click them one by one and check for properties… rather tedious, if you ask me.

By: Denton

Denton — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:45:26 +0000

You can’t open the old data that you have stored on your 5-1/4″, 3-1/2″, or zip drives either. If you are not PDF’ing or some other way generalizing your archives, you haven’t thought about it much…