[yorkietalkjilly]

Have no need for MS Office so I've just been creating and saving and opening my documents with MS Word Starter 2010 until today. Tried to open a vital document and all my saved documents were ORANGE and called docx files and nothing would open. Finally I went to the MS Word Starter 2010 and opened it and can open the documents once in it - a slow, slow process. But I finally found the virtual option to use and now am able to open the documents directly within whatever folder they are in but don't know how long this will last. Apparently MS loaded Word Starter 2010 on a lot of computers and then one of the critical Windows updates apparently changed everything. But thank goodness, despite all of the Draconian methods suggested online about reinstalls and reformats or downloading one of the free and sometimes scary open source programs and such, using the virtual manager option the files are all directly opening. Just hope they will open tomorrow!!!!!!!

Turns out Microsoft found too many people weren't following up with purchasing Office since they had Word Starter 2010 and now they are messing with it - and you have to purchase Office at $99/per year to open your old documents unless you can find a way around!!! So Bill wasn't making enough $$$ off Word Starter 2010 so his minions just set about and made our world dark for many hours for those of us relying on Word Starter while everybody hunted all over the internet for help and answers. I found my help on ONE SITE buried in pages of scary options with just one two-line post! Lots of people said they just broke down and purchased Office, fearing they would lose their old documents or not having time to search for answers!!!! Bill Gates just got lots richer since the last Windows Critical Update last week!

I have a few things I'd like to say to Microsoft about their word processing programs!!!