Re: [users] Open Office and Vista

2007-03-04 Thread Paul
Does Open office work well on Vista? OOo works on Vista. There are a few eye candy issues with the current release of OOo which will be corrected in the next version. /paul -- Vista is "dramatically more secure than any other operating system released" Bill Gates Huh ?? Defender doesn't stop s

Re: [users] Open Office and Vista

2007-03-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:54:16 -0800 (PST) Hartford Matthews wrote: > Does Open office work well on Vista? > > I use Open Office now on XP and swear by it. But I need upgrade my > Laptop. Ann all of the new laptops of cousre come with Vista. > > I thank you for you help. > Most industry adviser

Re: [users] Open Office and Vista

2007-03-04 Thread Tom Chilton
Michael, I am interested in your statement; "Most industry advisers are recommending you not switch to vista yet, at least, most those that aren't retailers." Could you state your reference for this? Is it from a journal paper? By 'most' I presume you mean some number over 50%. I'm doing a

Re: [users] Open Office and Vista

2007-03-04 Thread Harold Fuchs
Tom Chilton wrote: Michael, I am interested in your statement; "Most industry advisers are recommending you not switch to vista yet, at least, most those that aren't retailers." Could you state your reference for this? Is it from a journal paper? By 'most' I presume you mean some number over

Re: [users] Open Office and Vista

2007-03-04 Thread Tom Chilton
Harold, Thanks for the info, Does anyone have anything a little more 'academic.' Something I might quote in a paper, I think I would be in trouble if I said 'most' without some backup. Tom -- Tom Chilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [users] Open Office and Vista

2007-03-04 Thread Harold Fuchs
Tom Chilton wrote: Harold, Thanks for the info, Does anyone have anything a little more 'academic.' Something I might quote in a paper, I think I would be in trouble if I said 'most' without some backup. MIT "academic" enough? http://web.mit.edu/ist/products/winvista/fastfacts.pdf and at

Re: [users] Open Office and Vista

2007-03-04 Thread Tom Chilton
MIT "academic" enough? Unfortunately not, as far as I can tell none of these sources have undergone an independent review process, but rather are MIT's strategy for 'dealing' with the (*ahem* problem of) Vista. However they are useful and appreciated nonetheless. Tom --

Re: [users] Open Office and Vista

2007-03-04 Thread James Knott
Tom Chilton wrote: > Michael, > > I am interested in your statement; "Most industry advisers are > recommending you not switch to vista yet, at > least, most those that aren't retailers." > > Could you state your reference for this? Is it from a journal paper? > By 'most' I presume you mean some nu

RE: [users] Open Office and Vista

2007-03-04 Thread rob
- From: James Knott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2007 02:12 To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Open Office and Vista Tom Chilton wrote: > Michael, > > I am interested in your statement; "Most industry advisers are > recommending you not switch to vista yet,

Re: [users] Open Office and Vista

2007-03-04 Thread Paul
> Could you state your reference for this? Is it from a journal paper? I would suggest that final version of Vista hasn't been out long enough for peer reviewed papers to get published yet (I assume your thinking of stuff like ACM, IEEE, etc...). A Google scholar quick search didn't turn up much

Re: [users] Open Office and Vista

2007-03-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:11:37 -0500 James Knott wrote: > Tom Chilton wrote: > > Michael, > > > > I am interested in your statement; "Most industry advisers are > > recommending you not switch to vista yet, at > > least, most those that aren't retailers." > > > > Could you state your reference for t

Re: [users] Open Office and Vista

2007-03-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:33:13 +1300 Michael Adams wrote: > On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:11:37 -0500 > James Knott wrote: > > > Tom Chilton wrote: > > > Michael, > > > > > > I am interested in your statement; "Most industry advisers are > > > recommending you not switch to vista yet, at > > > least, most

Re: [users] Open Office and Vista

2007-03-05 Thread Tom Chilton
Paul, It will probably be a little while till definitive papers are researched, written, sent for publishing, peer reviewed, and published... Good point | had somewhat overlooked that... http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1152301.1152302 Brilliant, thanks. I always thought Apple were be

Re: [users] Open office and vista

2007-08-19 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Richard Machado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon 20 Aug 2007 05:23:57 EST > Does open office work with Vista? Yes. > I downloaded your product, but I do not know how to get the > applications onto the desktop so I can try them. The install program > did no

Re: [users] Open office and vista

2007-08-19 Thread James Knott
Richard Machado wrote: > Does open office work with Vista? I downloaded your product, but I do not > know how to get the applications onto the desktop so I can try them. The > install program did not put icons on the desktop. > Richard > > OpenOffice does not put icons on the desktop. It c

Re: [users] Open office and Vista

2008-01-29 Thread James Knott
Terrance N. James wrote: > I have been using Open Office version 1.1.0 on XP for four years. My > problem is that I have just bought a new computer with Windows Vista Home > Premium Edition and cannot load this version. Is it possible or do I need > an update? > > Version 1.1.1 is very old and