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Well, it finally happened. I've nearly seen my first instance of MS Vista in the wild. Well, in my office building anyway. Until now, I've never known of anyone that actually uses Vista unless it was given to them to review.

Ok, here is what happened:

I'm walking from the break room to my modest but sparsely decorated cube when I over hear a conversation from the cubes occupied by the desktop support group.

Desktop Support girl: That's BS! Is it supposed to be our fault he's an idiot?

Desktop Support guy: Well... no, not really.

DSGirl: What's wrong with him, Vista works fine?

DSGuy: Well, it's not Vista. He has format problems.

DSGirl: Format problems? With what?

DSGuy: He's caught between Vista/XP and Office2000/Office2007 and doesn't understand how to convert between formats.

At this point I just walked away, ignoring the urge to laugh loudly as I walked down the hallway.

This is what has always been wrong with MS Office: The constant battle with updated and changed file formats. ODF can't be implemented soon enough as far as I'm concerned.