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Story: Closing the Office door on Microsoft

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Posted by: Geetesh Bajaj (Wednesday 16 June 2004, 2:41 PM)

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What about the 5 year legal thing - all versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint share the same format since 1997 - that's already 7 years. And Office 97 still runs well on Windows XP - so there are no problems saving files for five years.

Yes, a Word file created in Word 2004 for the Macintosh can open flawlessly on Word 97 for Windows - how much better can you get?

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Story: Closing the Office door on Microsoft

  1. What technical support? Have you ever actually cal... Arthur B.
  2. What about the 5 year legal thing - all versions o... Geetesh Bajaj
  3. It's actualy more then 5 years in most countries f... Arthur B.
  4. Useless article. IT people who done support know b... Abe IT
  5. Don't forget that there are a lot of userful featu... Anonymous
  6. >>When you install OpenOffice, the installation pr... Chris
  7. Blah, Blah, Blah, Personally I have used Microsoft... MDW
  8. I've been using OpenOffice M3*-M41 at work for the... asdf
  9. Granted, OpenOffice may or may not have some probl... Erich Kitzmüller
  10. Give me a break. Around here, 'technical support'... Me
  11. OpenOffice.org support? If you go to http://www.op... Anonymous
  12. Microsoft's support is expensive and seriously lac... Hans Bezemer
  13. why should OpenOffice uninstall MSOfiice? can you... Anonymous
  14. OpenOffice's number one feature for me is the open... Bob
  15. You were incorrect when you said there is no suppo... Larry Schacher
  16. Ms should be paying money for this type of bias co... Anonymous
  17. My MS Office 2000 on Win 98 often freezes or is un... Joe Kaplenk
  18. Basically what this "journalist" is saying is: - s... NOT an OO user!
  19. An absolute joke of an article, this 'journalist'... Ryan Mills
  20. Wow, never before have i seen such a bias argument... anom
  21. Microsoft OneNote doesn't come bundled with any ve... Steve C
  22. In principle OO is great, but it's just those litt... Kikki Bona Sijabat
  23. Anybody who saves their documents in a closed prop... Anon
  24. It's a year later and OpenOffice 2.0 beta has an a... Anonymous

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