On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 20:04 +0000, John McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 12:44 -0500, Jeffrey G. Causey, CPA wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Ran across another article: > > > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1933229,00.asp?kc=ewnws030206dtx1k0000599 > > > > This one is about the challenges firms/users will face in deciding whether > > to > > upgrade to Office 2007, switch to an alternative, or do nothing. The focus > > is on the issues of file compatability and the new user interface that > > Office > > 2007 will introduce. > > Thansk for the link - it's a good article. I did a piece in my blog > http://jpmcc.blogdns.org/index.php/2006/03/02/your-office-or-mine/ about > this. Microsoft are not infallible - we should look forward to the > challenge. > > >From what I've seen of the early MS marketing, they seem to be stressing > very strongly the number of templates, wizards, etc that they will be > supplying. This will enable them to claim that you don't need to know > MS-O2007 to produce professional results. They also know it's an area > where OOo is weak. > > Fortunately, it's one area where our userbase could help by contributing > masses of templates. They would need to be QA'd and possibly translated > (there's nothing worse than a template which superficially looks ok but > which completely ignores stylesheets etc :-) > > What do folks think?
Maybe start a "donate a template" campaign? -- Ian Lynch www.theINGOTs.org www.opendocumentfellowship.org www.schoolforge.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
