Frank Peters wrote:
Gary,
I haven't experienced problems with Writer until fairly recently.
From "reading the mail" in some OOo forums, it appears that the
Windows Vista (and perhaps XP) implementations are not anywhere near
as stable as the previous versions. I have a helluva time trying to
convert .sxw files to .odt without having Writer crash or opening
some .odt files within Writer without having Writer freeze so that I
have to resort to the Task Manager and kill Writer. Currently, I've
been using Vista Ultimate the past two weeks, and using OOo has been
a nightmare of having to repeatedly having to restart Writer after
crashing or having to kill it after it keeps hanging up.
If OOo is becoming quite user unfriendly as I believe it is to
Windows Vista users, how can OOo attract new (or retain its current)
users if what I am experiencing is routinely happening? I will
probably have to edit or whatever using MS Word and occasionally
convert that to Writer if I have so much of my time wasted with
crashing or frozen Writer documents.
I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing difficulties with Writer
on Vista. I just called the QA guys and they don't know of any
instability you describe. If this problem is somewhat reproducible,
I guess the QA folks would be grateful if you file an issue.
Thanks
Frank
A large number of Windows apps work fine on XP but are not able to
install or run on Vista, in general. Why couldn't some of that plague OOo?
Not having many (or any) QA complaints may not mean that much,
considering that only a very small percentage of people know how to
effectively complain these days. For every valid complaint reported,
another 9999 people might notice the same problems and either not bother
to notify anybody or know how to even go about filing a complaint. And
for others, they may not have, as yet, experienced those problematic areas.
It seems odd to me that Writer would work fine on XP Pro but work
terribly on the highest of the four levels of Windows Vista. I
reinstalled Writer again--just to be sure, but with the same lousy
performance both times.
Gary
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