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Most companies do not support old systems long, but Microsoft is known for keeping up support for their old systems.  The will change with Windows Phone Mango as it will not support Microsoft Office 97-2003 file types.

In Mango, you will be able to open and edit files which use the newer Open Office XML standard that Microsoft started using in Office 2007. This includes Office documents that end with ‘x’ like .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx.  Microsoft claims that there was an “unacceptable risk of data and formatting loss during editing” of older file formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt) and so those documents will be read-only.

There is a chance that you have a few older documents laying around somewhere. If you’ve opened and used a document any time recently, chances are that you’re using Office 2007 or newer and old files would likely have been re-saved in the newer formats.

Do you care that Office 97-2003 files won’t be editable on WP Mango? Drop us a line and let us know how or if this will affect you.

source: WMPU

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