Hi :) Great idea and that is certainly the way MS would like it but sadly MS Office 2010 documents often seem to go a little wrong in MS Office 2007 and vice-versa. Earlier versions of MS Office can't read/write the format used by MS Office 2010 or 2007 at all without installing an extra patch. It's not just a case of using MS Office but of using the 'right' version too. It helps push people into buying the latest one and when the newer one comes out hesitate a little before everyone else gets it too. Smart. Regards from Tom :)
________________________________ From: Andy Brown <a...@the-martin-byrd.net> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 12 August, 2011 22:57:07 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended onMicrosoftAnswers Forums! David H. Lipman wrote: > From: "Tom Davies"<tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> > >> Hi :) >> Oracle managed to mishandle OOo so badly that they couldn't "monetise it". >> Apparently IBM pushed Oracle into donating OOo to The Apache Foundation a few >> weeks ago. >> >> There are Apache people in TDF (and some TDF in Apache) lists to help the 2 >> projects work together more closely and people are now allowed to work in both >> again. It's bit weird because Oracle is not particularly close to Apache so >> it's possible they were attempting to hamper Apache by giving them a "poisoned >> pawn". I don't think Oracle were expecting Apache to suddenly work with TDF, >> effectively draining the poison and making OOo much more viable. Then IBM >> donated a lot of their Lotus code to Apache making OOo even more viable. >> OpenSource co-operative competition between projects beat the proprietary >> mind-set again. >> >> Most MS people are probably very unaware of these rapid changes that have >taken >> place in the last few weeks so they probably do think they are fighting >> "Oracle's OOo" by suggesting LibreOffice instead. Still, it's probably best >>not >> to inform them because they seldom appreciate being given better intel >> especially if it's not directly from MS. >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> > > Many of the MS MVPs I know aren't swayed by Microsoft and suggest *best* >solutions that > may not be a Microsoft solution. As has been done on the forums that I have seen. It has been suggested many times that if a person needs 100% compatibility with MSO, use MSO. Plain, simple and to the point. Andy -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
