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7/20/12 at 11:33am

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Originally Posted by jsc1973

The best workaround is to just use LibreOffice.

I do use LibreOffice, but I find it has to many formatting errors when opening some word files, compared to Microsoft office

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7/20/12 at 12:05pm

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Originally Posted by rafety58

I see it taking 2 days max, before someone makes a work around for vista.

wouldnt suprise me if compatibility mode worked lol

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7/20/12 at 12:19pm

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great to see more companies dropping decade old softwares and obsolete softwares.

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About time. Can't believe this made news

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