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
Gary,
Given that Vista is extraordinarily fussy about the hardware it's
installed on, perhaps submitting your computer as an attachment to the
issue will facilitate isolating the root cause of the instability. I'll
make book that it isn't in OOo.
DougT
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