Re: [ANN] "Dbl-Click Won't Open..." Issues

Hi Steve -

I don't have all the details, but I understand that a KB article will be
coming out on the issue. The best I can offer to the kernel of your 2 main
questions are that a) the changes made by the browser/email apps are the
result of fairly recent changes and b) the adjustment made in 12.1 was
done
to improve file stability and correct the modification being made by those
programs - and I doubt MS is going to lower the bar to accommodate
inappropriate actions taken by a few mavericks:-)

Are you asking that these programs be allowed to continue garbling your
files and putting them at risk for the sake of "clicky" convenience?

Email apps & browsers have - IMHO - no business hacking your attachments
in
any way. And it isn't "*now* just wrong"... It's *always* been wrong and I
believe it started becoming a problem with the introduction of the OOXML
file format by Office 2007. There have been flurries of this issue several
times during the last year or so. It's now been identified & addressed.

If you have docs that old - which have never been downloaded from the web
or
transmitted as email attachments - but are behaving in a *similar* fa****on
it may well be a somewhat different situation.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones 
[MVP] Office:Mac


On 5/15/08 7:54 PM, in article 150520081954039431%maser@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 "Steve
Maser" <maser@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <C4523DE4.39284%onlygeneraltaz1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, CyberTaz
> <onlygeneraltaz1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Although identity of the software hasn't been identified, MacBU is
working
>> with the developers to resolve the situation. In the meanwhile there is
no
>> "fix". 
> 
> 
> Not to hijack this, but why can't MS return to the code that is part of
> 12.0.1 that didn't break this and issue that as an immediate (well, not
> really expected, but RSN?) 12.1.1 hotfix?
> 
> I have Word/Excel do***ents going back 10+ years that won't
> double-click-open any longer.   So whatever "key identifier
> modifications" e-mail programs did -- they've been doing it for a
> decade and it's *now* just wrong?
> 
> Just curious what the MacBU really has to say about that...
> 
> - Steve