On Wednesday 17 January 2007 17:15, + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm about to purchase a new computer on 0% finance with all the
> requirements for running Autocad software and with Windows Vista (The
> latest Bill Gates Version).
>
> As a landscape designer starting a new business, my finances are limited
> and this is the best deal I have found so far which meets my cash flow
> situation. Unfortunately this computer package does not include Microsoft
> Office. My son, who is clever at downloading anything and everything, told
> me about openoffice but he is not sure whether your software of openoffice
> will be compatible with Windows Vista, since it won't be launched until
> 30.01.2007. Could you shed some light on the matter for us please ?
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On Thursday 18 January 2007 20:13, Mathias Bauer wrote:
>
> OpenOffice.org runs fine on Vista. The current version (2.1) has some
> minor bugs that are only annoyances (e.g. OOo uses the "old" file dialog
> instead of the pretty(?) new one from Vista). They will be fixed in
> OpenOffice.org 2.2
>
> Some problems with system integration (e.g. showing thumbnails and
> document property columns in the Explorer) are known that can't be fixed
> until Microsoft publishes the necessary interfaces. :-(
>
> But they will not have any impact on running OpenOffice.org. You can use
> it on Vista as you can on XP.
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