[LINK] Google imposing file conversion

[Jan Whitaker]

I was alerted to this in a newsgroup this morning. What give Google 
the right to convert documents into a different format?
Although the announcement doesn't say it does this, further testing 
by the original poster shows that it is already happening. Files 
stored as .doc are being returned as .docx. He said he has also 
noticed that Google Docs no longer appears on this gmail account, has 
changed to Google Drive.


http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/scheduled-release-track-features-update_26.html

Scheduled Release track features update 9/25/12

Released on 
<http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/scheduled-release-track-features-update_26.html>9/26/2012 

No features have launched this week.

The following features are intended for release to these domains on 
October 1st:
Docs: The built-in exporting feature from Google Docs to Microsoft 
Office will now allow users to download Google documents as modern 
Office formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx), as opposed to the older formats 
(.doc, .xls, .ppt) that were standard in Office 97-2003. For users 
who still use Office 97-2003, we recommend installing the free 
<http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx>compatibility 
plugin from Microsoft, which will allow them to open modern Office file types.

Note:
The ability to import Office files of any format to Google Docs is 
still supported and will remain unchanged.

Release track:
Scheduled

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

For more information:
<http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=49115>http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=49115



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