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Story: Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice

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I've been using OOo for about the last three years now, both at home, and have implimented it for my employees at the office.

After years of MS Office failure to support previous versions of it's own .DOC format, after countless hours of migraine-inspiring overtime trying to troubleshoot why MS Word refused to stop padding the documentation with useless background data (open a fresh Word doc, write "Hello World.", and save it as a a .DOC, and then as a .TXT... you'll see what I mean.), and why it would refuse to allow me to disable scripting (macro's) entirely... (ME! I *OWN* the company, I *AM* the IT Admin, don't tell me that *I* don't have the authority to set policy for what my *word processiing* program is and is not allowed to do on MY network!), I finally flushed MS Office in favour of OOo.

Other than getting everyone used to the new layout, we've had almost NO headaches since the switch. (The one major issue was my own fault, and I publicly chewd myself a new arse for the mistake, hehehe)

No, Microsoft, OOo is NOT ten years behind you. It's the future, it's what you should have been all along. It's what you could yet become if you had the intelligence to realize that when entire *governments* are switching over to Open Source Software (like OOo, Linux, et cetera), trying to play the whiney "It's my ball, we either play by my rules or I go home!" schoolyard chump is no longer an option - there are other people with more balls than you, and we're not afraid to use them.

So, MS, go play with your balls elsewhere - the rest of the World is too busy trying to get their work done to play your game any more. ((Grin))

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