windows office: Why windows Office 2000 and 2003 files not working properly with Vista? Why the new windows office 2007 is not compatible with MS 95, 98SE and MS ME and 2000? Anyone knows whether will these be resolved or its permanently like this?|||This is the problem people have being asking about once I installed office 2007 on the PCs in the office... but don't you worry, even office 2007 is backward compatible. Just open your document normally if you have saved them with lower version of microsoft office then click on the office button on your 2007 and see the 'Save As..' option, select 'Word97- 2003' option and you can rename or do whatever you like with the.... Save your document and move it any where.. It should open. However, you should note that for some features that are not available on your lower versions, the 2007 will convert such to some format which will be recognized by the version you have saved has. Beyond money, Microsoft have developed the new 2007 on another platform with a view for the challenges of that are coming in the computer industry. I personally have found that worms and other security loopholes that are available with the lower versions of office are well taken care of... So take the right actions and you are can enjoy your documents... good luck to you|||ITS COMPATIBLE YOU JUST GOTA HIT IT LIKE A NINTENDO CARTRIDGE AND GET VISTAL|||This is how bill gates keeps his money rolling in, cant you just be happy with xp why did you think vista would be any better? Ha ha from bill.|||Making an new product compatible with older products does not work for any software manufacturer, whether it's Microsoft or Sun or Linux or Joe Blow. There are no plans to make Office 2007 compatible with earlier versions of Windows, in fact, that isn't possible. As to whether upgrades to Office 2000 and 2003 will make them compatible with Vista, only time will tell. It is much too early in the release of Vista to try to make these changes. If you are one of the ones who rushed to buy a new operating system and then spend the rest of your life complaining about it, too bad. Windows 95, 98SE and ME are no longer supported by Microsoft. Win95 is going on 12-13 years old. Win98 actually came out in 1997 and is now 10 years old. WinME is a piece of junk - why anything is compatible with it is a mystery. Windows XP is now a stable and user-friendly OS. Why aren't you complaining about all the other equipment manufacturers? They need to make driver changes to go along with Vista and they haven't rushed to do so. They are just as much at fault. They knew it was coming, they were given specs and most of them decided to ride it out. Many of these things occurred with Windows XP, though not to such a great extent. XP did require new drivers for almost all peripheral equipment, but then ANY new operating system does.|||why should it support out of date software. i dont understand not supporting office 2003 but any one later than that is just out dated software that can have a lot of security holes in it. as for office 2007 not being supported on any thing other than xp and vista. that seem right. why should it be supported on a plat from than is most likely gone and should be gone. the older os have major security problems. lets face it the days of 98 and 200 are now long gone. lets face it its either xp or vista and thats how its going to be till the new Windows come out.|||Any time you save a document in Word 2007, you have an option to save it in a form compatible with Word 97-Word 2003. I am running Office 2007 on XP Pro - the compatibility problem with Office 2007 is nothing to do with Vista. Microsoft should really issue a statement advising all users of Office 2007 to save their documents in the compatible form to allow the document to be retrieved on a computer running an older version of Office. I cannot say if the same problem occurs with Excel because I don't currently use Excel|||This incompatibility is because the new Vista OS operates in a completely different manner from the earlier Windows OS's. MOST older applications will NOT work with it. They have NO intention of attempting to correct this problem since they do NOT see it AS a problem. They see it as an "overall" improvement. It ALSO "forces" you to buy other new software (and, in many cases, hardware) if you upgrade to the Vista OS! Personally, I recommend going to "Open Office" that is FREE, and will read and write Windows Office files! (For some things I still use the "very old" DOS systems)|||That's because they have abandoned everything lower than Windows XP Download the free program open office. the link is http://www.openoffice.org