OK, I will hold on until this (hopefully not endless) discussion is
finished... ;-)

Matthias

Am 26.05.20 um 20:30 schrieb Pedro Lino:
> Hi Rory
>
>
>>> I believe it would have more impact (and still be correct) if you replaced 
>>> it with
>>>
>>> "the software reads all current file types of major competitors."
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Pedro
>> My reasoning for the earlier wording which I suggested is that many users, 
>> becoming more and more inexperienced, expect every file to open with 
>> OpenOffice; they take it as a personal insult when a file does not open, for 
>> whatever reason. I prefer the slight ambiguity of "most".
> That is why I suggest "file types". I understand that users expect OpenOffice 
> to open every file. But I also expect my "old" Office 2016 to open every 
> Microsoft OOXML file correctly and it does not...
> Should we give up on educating users because they feel insulted? Should we 
> not insist on Open Document because most users want to keep using Microsoft 
> file formats?
>
> Regards,
> Pedro
>
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