On 30/01/14 21:21, Barry Drake wrote:
Microsoft has been forced into supporting ODF and is clearly very
annoyed by this. A little humility and listening to ordinary folk
might have gone a long way.
Humility seems to be in short supply in Redmond; here is a quote about
ODF standards from a
There is also the point that trying to open an ODT file in MS Office
prompts a message suggesting that file may be corrupt or contain
unreadable elements. This cleverly plants the idea in the MS user's
mind
that ODF files are in some way dodgy or of dubious quality. This is
clever, but
On 30/01/14 21:04, Gibbs wrote:
The only files I've ever encountered which I couldn't handle were a
few Microsoft Publisher .pub
Pub files are a right pain in the neck. I had a colleague once who did
EVERYTHING in Publisher - and as we all know, the ONLY app that will
open pub files is
On 29/01/14 21:03, Barry Drake wrote:
Hi there ... A couple of weeks ago, I did a BIOS (UEFI) update as
requested after reporting a bug. The result was that an installation of
Windows 7 which I had on a removable drive died completely and I lost
it. How unstable Windows can be at times
On 30/01/14 11:20, alan c wrote:
Congratulations Barry! I am surprised you could hold out so long! I
said good bye to Windows years ago now and I actually think my health
improved! Yes, really.
Hi Alan .. One thing I have to use a Windows program for is to
visit my local e-library. I
On 30/01/14 16:07, Barry Drake wrote:
I've also been looking at the Open Documents thread. I think it was
the last time we met, at a government consultation about this issue.
Government grinds very slowly Schools are still teaching
Microsoft BUT with kids using Android tablets
On 30 Jan 2014 16:07, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:
Schools are still teaching Microsoft
This is changing. Slowly, but it's changing.
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Hi!
Y'know the comical thing is: when I read the subject line I had a sudden
vision of Microsoft finally giving in and going open-source! ;-)
On 30/01/14 16:15, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 30/01/14 16:07, Barry Drake wrote:
I've also been looking at the Open Documents thread. I think
Within schools I think it is important to remember that Microsoft has
been outdoing itself to bring educational establishments into migrating
to Office365, which when you have Office 2013 and Windows 7 and above is
great. It's just not so good with everything else (as the IMAP thread on
this
On 30/01/14 16:34, Bea Groves wrote:
Y'know the comical thing is: when I read the subject line I had a
sudden vision of Microsoft finally giving in and going open-source! ;-)
Nice one! Oh, but if they do that folk might find out that bits of
their code are tortuous and outdated
On 29/01/14 21:03, Barry Drake wrote:
When I looked at my very rare need for Windows, I found that I only
have occasional need to use Microsoft Word to open a docx file which
is heavily formatted and shows complete garbage in Libreoffice, and
for the very occasional publisher file I am sent.
On 30/01/14 21:04, Gibbs wrote:
I've noticed a lot more people using Libre Office, including big
companies like British Gas, which makes life easier for /everyone/.
Now that is interesting! Not so many years back, there was a deep
suspicion of open source programs. It is excellent complex
On 30 de enero de 2014 21:21:18 GMT, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com
wrote:
On 30/01/14 21:04, Gibbs wrote:
I've noticed a lot more people using Libre Office, including big
companies like British Gas, which makes life easier for /everyone/.
Now that is interesting! Not so many years
On 30 January 2014 16:34, Bea Groves beagro...@gmail.com wrote:
Y'know the comical thing is: when I read the subject line I had a sudden
vision of Microsoft finally giving in and going open-source! ;-)
Well, quite.
It should have said Windows-free at last! The missing hyphen changes
the
Hi there ... A couple of weeks ago, I did a BIOS (UEFI) update as
requested after reporting a bug. The result was that an installation of
Windows 7 which I had on a removable drive died completely and I lost
it. How unstable Windows can be at times like this!
When I looked at my very rare
On 29 January 2014 21:03, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:
Hi there ... A couple of weeks ago, I did a BIOS (UEFI) update as
requested after reporting a bug. The result was that an installation of
Windows 7 which I had on a removable drive died completely and I lost it.
How
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