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Story: Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'

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Posted by: Mitch 74 (Sunday 9 October 2005, 1:55 PM)

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Personally, I've been using OOo for years. Yup, 1.0 was not so much better than MSO 97 - and even a bit worse. However, when 1.1 came out and I had to type dozens of pages of reports with styles and formats not being destroyed from one session to another, then I found all the versions of MSO (97, 2000, XP) that I coudl use to be absolute C-R-A-P. As a result, I was using OOo constantly to, first, restore those documents to readable, and then, to edit them from beginning to end. Once done, I could save them in pdf and read/print them anywhere, or just export them to .doc format and distribute them to my hapless coworkers - who never had any trouble opening them, whatever version of Office they were using.
Now, I'm using betas and DBs of OOo 2.0, and my MSO CDs are gathering dust in a closet. Pity for the 250€ I had to spend on them... And I rejoice that I won't need to pay 300€ for Office 12 when it comes out!

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Story: Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'

  1. Mr. Taylor, do you actually know how many customer... Anonymous
  2. OpenOffice does have an export as PDF functio... Anugraha
  3. It just floors me how many folks line up in s... Steve Thompson
  4. What's the population of Massachusetts? Isn't it m... Tomas Marek
  5. There is a very good text about it here: http://ww... Anonymous
  6. Can you imagine any other industry where if s... Richard
  7. Microsoft is gambling that they can brea... Dan Clayton
  8. Yet another prediction of Microsoft's defeat. Wasn... Matt S
  9. Quote: "The problem is, in its search for a p... Neal Schulz
  10. "The problem is, in its search for a phi... Matt
  11. Re Matt: Netscape nearly did harm Microsoft.... Richard
  12. Most people seem to either hate them or... Anonymous
  13. Does anybody know what the licensing terms are for... Tavis
  14. The logic is inescapable: OpenOffice can happily r... Paul Vincent
  15. Why do you hate Microsoft Office so much? It'... Microsoft Office Fan
  16. > Why do you hate Microsoft Office so mu... Rodd Clarkson
  17. Personally, I've been using OOo for... Mitch 74
  18. What a biased load of crap. Open office is shit. I... Anonymous
  19. What a biased load of crap. Open office is shit. I... Anonymous
  20. Doesn't anyone else see the problem with MS includ... Anonymous
  21. > Doesn't anyone else see the problem with MS... Flash
  22. > Doesn't anyone else see the problem wi... Rodd Clarkson
  23. ODF is _not_ "quite new", it is based on StarOffic... Anonymous
  24. Ad hominem attacks are the hallmark of MS apologis... Olavi Petri
  25. I disagree. MS Office is used so extensively that... Anonymous
  26. "MS Office is used so extensively that .doc i... Sean Jodrey
  27. Do people really believe in 5 years time... Jon
  28. >There is no more chance of people... Anonymous
  29. Point is people dont really ca... Jon
  30. Re: "Do people really believe... Richard
  31. Now I would not go as far as saying... Clifford
  32. Standards are not meant to be static. T... Anonymous
  33. makes sense i understand your point... Scott W
  34. %^SJAKDH ASL J^(A^ AOS A) )AS)A(US )(A*S That's ho... JJ
  35. Ejaculate on Microsoft! Testy Testerton
  36. Standards are meant to be fully backward compatibl... Arthur B.

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