From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Leave it to Microsoft to piss off  the Journal of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science ( largest scientific society in the world )

Good show Redmond - keep up the good work ;->




"mike"  wrote in message
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>
> http://www.sciencemag.org/about/authors/prep/docx.dtl
>
>
> ===
> Because of changes Microsoft has made in its recent Word release that
> are incompatible with our internal workflow, which was built around
> previous versions of the software, Science cannot at present accept any
> files in the new .docx format produced through Microsoft Word 2007,
> either for initial submission or for revision. Users of this release of
> Word should convert these files to a format compatible with Word 2003 or
> Word for Macintosh 2004 (or, for initial submission, to a PDF file)
> before submitting to Science.
>
> Users of Word 2007 should also be aware that equations created with the
> default equation editor included in Microsoft Word 2007 will be
> unacceptable in revision, even if the file is converted to a format
> compatible with earlier versions of Word; this is because conversion
> will render equations as graphics and prevent electronic printing of
> equations, and because the default equation editor packaged with Word
> 2007 -- for reasons that, quite frankly, utterly baffle us -- was not
> designed to be compatible with MathML....
> ===
>
>
> Typical of Microsoft, thinking the world revolves around Redmond, WA.
>
>  /m

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