Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office being recommended on Microsoft Answers Forums!

Hi :)
The link you gave in an earlier post led to another link where MS use the word 
"Professional" rather than "Player" even tho they obviously don't pay the MVPs.  


MS make a lot of money from their Office Suite so it's not a huge surprise that 
they don't mention that WordPad has a lot more functionality than most people 
are aware of.  What is a surprise is that WordPad has a lot more functionality 
than it had a decade or so ago (when i last looked at it).  


MS support for ODF is the older 1.1 or 1.0 standard rather than the newer 1.2 
(Extended) that is used by default in LibreOffice and other apps.

I have found this thread very interesting and a major boost to morale.  
Thanks everyone, especially Dennis & Gordon :)
Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Fri, 12 August, 2011 18:58:35
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office being recommended on Microsoft 
Answers Forums!

[The MVP page seems to have moved, so here's a text explanation]

MVP = Most Valued Player

It is an award (made annually) from Microsoft to non-Microsoft people who make 
significant contributions to the community of Microsoft product adopters.  The 
awards tend to be identified with a particular product group (e.g., Developer 
products, Office, Sharepoint, etc.)

The MVP receives free access to tools and products and early previews.  MVPs are 
also invited to periodic Microsoft MVP Summits where early releases are 
disclosed, advice is solicited from Microsoft, etc.

While MVPs tend to be expert in a Microsoft technology, that does not mean they 
are constrained in their breadth of knowledge or contribution in forums, etc.  
It is not unusual to see a recommendation about the use of non-Microsoft 
technology, or how to inter-op with non-Microsoft technology.  It is not 
commonplace either, mostly because of the focus of the forums and what forum 
users tend to have their attention on.

In the case at hand, two different MVPs responded and there were a variety of 
solutions offered, one of which was use of LibreOffice.

What I find odd is that an OEM Windows 7 computer, if recent, is more likely to 
come with Microsoft Office Starter edition.  It may well be that the user simply 
failed to register it, in that case.  I see, however, that some OEMs preload a 
trial edition (sometimes both), and this seems to confuse matters.

Most folks are probably unaware that the built-in Windows 7 WordPad application 
will open and produce ODF Text documents, and also rtf and docx, but not .doc.  
The functionality is rather limited though (more on the lines of the old Windows 
Write application).

Another way of handling the situation also mentioned on that forum is to use the 
free Web applications for Microsoft Office.  There are features that don't work 
there, but it can be handy in a pinch.

Some folks just want to help users without co-opting them into some sort of 
ideological warfare.

- Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Burgess-Parker [mailto:gbplinux@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 10:14
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office being recommended on Microsoft 
Answers Forums!

On 12/08/2011 18:09, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> What is an MVP??
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/aboutmvp

:P

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