2012/6/2 Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org>: > On 6/2/12, Wolf Halton <wolf.hal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> When the US gov went to word from wordperfect sometime around 1994, pretty >> much everybody who interacted with the government went to MS Office within >> a year or so. >> I expect we will see a similar effect from Brazil and other governments >> moving to OFF. >> When I installed 3.4 on windows 7 and on Ubuntu Linux, I was given an >> option to allow or not allow OO to open MS formats by default. The problem >> may be that the default state of the check-boxes is for the file >> association to be with OO. >> Recently my copy of MS Office 2010 stole back the associations, so I had to >> fix them to point back to OO3.4. Thus I can appreciate the feelings of the >> original post. > > This goes with my point that this is an expected behavior of any > software. Including AOO, MSO has it, same as other non office software > like browsers, media players, zip utilities, etc. > > File association can be reversed from the OS level or also use the > Open with... option. So is not the end of the world or a "intrusive" > behavior. Like people here want us to think like.
Of course it is not the end of the world, but it IS an intrusive behaviour: most PC users are completely illiterate on the administration of their own systems so asking them to *manually* change file association is like asking for building a rocket... AFAIK, AOO installer on windows ask for file association, but maybe not with enough insistence: while I agree that the "next, next, end + needed OK without thinking" culture on this day computer world is plain wrong, it is not our task to change it. Just my 2¢ Regards Ricardo
