前一阵初试office 2007之后，不由得为最终采用的XML文件格式而赞叹，以为MS office终于攀上了无可匹敌的巅峰，其它写作软件沦为跑堂的时代就要来临。不过这次Science和Nature的声明倒是立即为这种想法猛泼了一盆冷水，看来MS此番改革的步子确实大了一些，引起了在文件格式方面最为保守的学术界的反击。

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. Regrettably, we will be forced to return any revised manuscript created with the Word 2007 default equation editor to authors for re-editing. To get around this, please use the MathType equation editor or the equation editor included in previous versions of Microsoft Word.

Nature
We currently cannot accept files saved in Microsoft Office 2007 formats. Equations and special characters (for example, Greek letters) cannot be edited and are incompatible with Nature’s own editing and typesetting programs.