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From: "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Date:  Wed, 11 May 2005 15:41:14 -0400

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>
>Please see http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4832 You will
>see that OOo DID change how it did things. Now user have to deliberately
>select that they want OOo as their default. Obviously it is not enough
>but users who blindly select things from the defaults do have to bear
>some responsibility.
>
>Personally, I think the original way was best.
>-- 
>PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST.
>OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead
>http://documentation.openoffice.org/ 
>
>
This gets into marketing philosophy -- Normally I would agree with you, but 
obviously there is a large component of the customer base who uses Word for 
Windows and wants to kick the tires of OOo, or to have OOo be a "second" word 
processor without losing their Word capabilities.  I think the current 
situation _given OOo's current market_ is probably best, but _only_ because of 
the quirky customer base it's working into.

Personally I'm still in the "kicking the tires" phase myself -- when I started 
my current gig I decided to go without Microsoft Office for as long as 
possible, just to see how long that might be.  So far it's been 1-1/2 years.

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Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com
 

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