Re: RE: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...]

2014-04-23 Thread Tom Davies
looked really nice. Err, i only tried the cinamon, mate and kde versions (to be fair that leaves xfce and debian to go) Regards from Tom :) On 23 April 2014 22:16, Virgil Arrington wrote: > > > > Original Message ---- > Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Wind

Re: RE: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...]

2014-04-23 Thread Tom Davies
gt; along and looked really nice. Err, i only tried the cinamon, mate and kde > versions (to be fair that leaves xfce and debian to go) > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > > On 23 April 2014 22:16, Virgil Arrington wrote: > >> >> >> >> -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...]

2014-04-23 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 04/23/2014 06:19 PM, Toki wrote: The typical end-user does not know that both hardware and software comes with EOL dates, much less has any idea when those dates will occur. jonathon That was certainly true of this typical end-user. Virgil -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...]

2014-04-23 Thread Toki
On 4/23/2014 6:36 AM, Brian Barker wrote: > So whenever you purchased it, you would have expected expiration either now or much sooner. That would be true if, and only if one of the following conditions is true: * The vendor of the OP's system was one of the 6-nines that provides EOL dates

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2014-04-23 Thread Virgil Arrington
Original Message Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...] Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:10:24 -0400 From: Virgil Arrington To: James Knott James Knott wrote, > > I run openSUSE Linux on my computers an

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2014-04-23 Thread Virgil Arrington
ibreoffice.org > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...] > > > On 04/23/2014 09:36 AM, Brian Barker wrote: > > At 07:57 23/04/2014 -0400, Virgil Arrington wrote: > >> ... Ubuntu clearly states on its website when 12.04

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2014-04-23 Thread Virgil Arrington
n up front. Virgil > Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:36:03 +0100 > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > From: b.m.bar...@btinternet.com > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...] > > At 07:57 23/04/2014 -0400, Virgil Arrington wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...]

2014-04-23 Thread James Knott
Jay Lozier wrote: > Also, there is no direct upgrade path from XP to W7 and I assume this > is true for W8 also. I run openSUSE Linux on my computers and have for several years. It's generally possible to to an upgrade as new versions come out. I recently upgraded my motherboard & hard drive (ol

Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...]

2014-04-23 Thread Jay Lozier
On 04/23/2014 09:36 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 07:57 23/04/2014 -0400, Virgil Arrington wrote: ... Ubuntu clearly states on its website when 12.04 support will expire, so I know going in what I'm getting into. M$ gave me no such warning when I purchased my XP machine years ago. That's odd. Y

Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...]

2014-04-23 Thread Brian Barker
At 07:57 23/04/2014 -0400, Virgil Arrington wrote: ... Ubuntu clearly states on its website when 12.04 support will expire, so I know going in what I'm getting into. M$ gave me no such warning when I purchased my XP machine years ago. That's odd. You may want to bookmark http://windows.micros