> I followed the instructions in 2977 and the text XX was still intact. > This was with the development edition "dev300_m53" (future v3.2). > http://download.openoffice.org/next/index.html
Awesome! Now all we need to do is start lobbying all of the schools, universities, and government agencies around the world to switch to OpenOffice when their Office 2003 licenses expire. This could be a very successful grass-roots marketing campaign! Once OpenOffice.org is dominant in schools, universities, government, etc. then Oracle can work it's magic to try to get the Fortune 500 corporations to switch over. The user interface for Open Office is much more like the traditional "File Edit View Insert Format Help" U.I. found in Microsoft Office 2003 than Microsoft's very own Office 2007 is. Office 2007 completely gave up the familiar U.I. they've had since Office 97, and the new "ribbon" user interface (shown below): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2007 confuses the heck out of long time Microsoft Windows users and makes it very difficult for them to be productive at work and school. I think it's fair to say that Office 2007 has gotten an even more negative reaction than Windows Vista got when it first came out (be warned that there is some vulgarity and crude language used to describe the new features in Office 2007 at some of the links below, may not be suitable for minors): http://keystoneisit.blogspot.com/2008/02/top-4-reasons-office-2007-sucks.html http://rantsnraves.org/showthread.php?t=7861 http://www.office2007sucks.net/ http://www.slate.com/id/2158652/ If you want to get the old "File Edit View Insert Format Help" menu in Office 2007, you have to buy it from a Microsoft Partner for an extra $30 on top of the $150 regular price of Office 2007! Right now would be the perfect time to launch an offensive to get people to "upgrade" from Office 2003 to openoffice.org instead of upgrading to the much hated and maligned Office 2007. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
