Microsoft Simplifies File Format Fix

January 5th, 2008 in Technology / Software
Microsoft Simplifies File Format Fix (AP)

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates shows a Smart Personal Object Technology (SPOT) watch by Fossil during his keynote address for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in this Jan. 8, 2003 file photo. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta)

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. changed course on an update to Office 2003 that blocked certain older file types from opening, after receiving a flurry of criticism from users and online publications.

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