I agree with what you're saying; and would like to add what must be
happening in the schools here in the U.S. -
for some reason kids are coming out of school thinking that
MSFT is the only reliable system; & believing that only MSFT will protect
their machines from hackers. As well, companies use only MSFT products on
their machines.
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Anthony Easthope <antiso...@myopera.com>wrote:
I have a comment on the error dialogue.
> I once got into a heated debate with my ICT teacher earlier on this year
> and in the debate the comment was made by her that: "Microsoft with that
> error dialogue are really just trying to insinuate that their products
> are superior to others"
>
> I in a way kind of agree with her because Microsoft have always insisted
> that the MO range of extensions should be the industry standard. Due to
> this sort of approach I find roadblocks when trying to submit work in
> .ODT format to institutions such as NZQA (New Zealand Qualifications
> Association). they keep getting angry at me for using a so called "UN
> recognized file format". I have now managed to persuade my school and
> some other institutions that for a truly open submission and form of
> collaboration that the use of ODF standards should be encouraged. the
> major problem with persuasion is that people are not willing to make the
> change is due to the lack of knowledge of understanding of opensource
> and how it can really become better than commercial counterparts.
>
> With education there can be a global revolution in the sense that open
> source programs such as LO will become commonplace and the illegal act
> of actions such as piracy (search on youtube "crack microsoft offfice
> 2010" to see what I mean!) will almost cease,
>
> Regards
> Anthony Easthope
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, at 09:03 PM, Don Parris wrote:
> > I would like to take something of a straw poll, if that's ok. I simply
> > want to know whether any of you have shared documents using the ODF
> > format
> > with MS Office users (preferably in a business environment), and what was
> > the reaction? What problems
> >
> > I am not seeking advice on how to share documents with MS Office users.
> > Nor am I interested in an in-depth analysis of why one might experience
> > problems in sharing such documents. I simply want to know your
> > experience.
> >
> > I have been sharing a simple spreadsheet document between LO (at home)
> > and
> > MSO (at work) in the OD format. The experience has been interesting on
> > the
> > MS Office side of it. I get error messages (that don't seem to be real
> > errors), and if I choose the "repair" option, it claims to fix the
> > errors,
> > and even gives me a link to click to see the list of alleged corrections.
> > The list is just a near-empty XML document. And to save a document in
> > ODF
> > raises a warning *every single time*, with no opportunity to say "stop
> > warning me".
> >
> > I know most of us still have to deal with both suites. I just wonder if
> > anyone else (how many???) has experienced similar issues.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Don
> > --
> > D.C. Parris, FMP, Linux+, ESL Certificate
> > Minister, Security/FM Coordinator, Free Software Advocate
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> >
>
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