Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Compatibility

Yep!

In the last 8 years since switching to iMAC, I have only had about 4
fixes to apply (including release upgrades).

"Occasional" blue screens are unacceptable if you have work to do.
I do not use LibreOffice to the same extent some users on this forum do.
So I cannot speak on that.  LibreOffice does what I need it to do.

Glenn

On 4/18/11 1:43 PM, Wayne Borean wrote:
> Reverse experience here. I stopped doing maintenance on my computers after I
> dumped Windows. Best move I ever made, it freed up a ton of time for more
> productive things.
>
> As to Microsoft giving us universal communications - horse manure. It was
> MicroPro that did that, with WordStar, back when the most advanced Microsoft
> editor was EDLIN.COM
>
> Wayne
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:26 AM,<timi@iafrica.com>  wrote:
>
> > Do not forget that MS Op Systems and Office apps gave us universal
> > communication. Apart
> > from the occasional blue screen, my XP runs without hassle. With Linux I
> > get the feeling that
> > like dedicated lovers of Series 2 Landrovers, you have to be seriously
> > technical and keep
> > your spanners with you at all times.
> >
> > I long for the day I can use LibO, knowing any document I create can be
> > read by business
> > colleagues world-wide on MS systems.
> >
> > Right now that's not the case, for example each time I send an Impress file
> > to an MS PP user
> > and it blows up it further demonstrates the gulf that currently exists
> > between open and closed
> > systems.
> >
> > Much as though I detest the latest edition of powerpoint and it's anal GUI,
> > I have no choice
> > but to use it.... I can't afford the time to write in Impress and then
> > spend a day trying to make
> > it work in PP.
> >
> > If you really want to hurt Uncle Bob then LibO must get it's act to
> > together asap and ensure
> > all LibO office apps are compatible to the extent that it allows trouble
> > free document
> > exchange between the open and closed systems.
> >
> > That way the MS user brigade will get confidence and hopefully may switch
> > over... but until
> > that day then Uncle Bob will rule the roost.
> >
> > Maybe someone can answer this?.... when will a LibO developer(s) focus on
> > compatibility
> > between MS and LibO.... and realise the way to sink MS is to prove
> > reliability and
> > compatibility in LibO.
> >
> > Meantime will someone please resolve why Impress (slides) with embedded
> > sound files
> > loses them when trying to convert to ppt? In addition why LibO Impress can
> > sometimes lose
> > the audiofile links (to MP3 files) all on it's own! without any help from
> > PP,
> >
> > Meantime i try and use LibO as much as is practical but am forced to use MS
> > office
> > whenever it's for distribution.
> >
> > Sad.
> >
> >
> > Timi


--
Glenn

"What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation."
T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"


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