[LINK] Google imposing file conversion
Jan Whitaker
jwhit at janwhitaker.com
Fri Sep 28 10:47:03 AEST 2012
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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