Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended onMicrosoftAnswers Forums!

Hi :)
Great idea and that is certainly the way MS would like it but sadly MS Office 
2010 documents often seem to go a little wrong in MS Office 2007 and 
vice-versa.  Earlier versions of MS Office can't read/write the format used by 
MS Office 2010 or 2007 at all without installing an extra patch.  It's not just 
a case of using MS Office but of using the 'right' version too.  It helps push 
people into buying the latest one and when the newer one comes out hesitate a 
little before everyone else gets it too.  Smart.
Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Andy Brown <andy@the-martin-byrd.net>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Fri, 12 August, 2011 22:57:07
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended 
onMicrosoftAnswers Forums!

David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "Tom Davies"<tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
>
> > Hi :)
> > Oracle managed to mishandle OOo so badly that they couldn't "monetise it".
> > Apparently IBM pushed Oracle into donating OOo to The Apache Foundation a few
> > weeks ago.
> >
> > There are Apache people in TDF (and some TDF in Apache) lists to help the 2
> > projects work together more closely and people are now allowed to work in 
both
> > again.  It's  bit weird because Oracle is not particularly close to Apache so
> > it's possible they were attempting to hamper Apache by giving them a 
"poisoned
> > pawn".  I don't think Oracle were expecting Apache to suddenly work with TDF,
> > effectively draining the poison and making OOo much more viable.  Then IBM
> > donated a lot of their Lotus code to Apache making OOo even more viable.
> > OpenSource co-operative competition between projects beat the proprietary
> > mind-set again.
> >
> > Most MS people are probably very unaware of these rapid changes that have 
> taken
> > place in the last few weeks so they probably do think they are fighting
> > "Oracle's OOo" by suggesting LibreOffice instead.  Still, it's probably best 
> > not
> > to inform them because they seldom appreciate being given better intel
> > especially if it's not directly from MS.
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
>
> Many of the MS MVPs I know aren't swayed by Microsoft and suggest *best* 
> solutions that
> may not be a Microsoft solution.

As has been done on the forums that I have seen.  It has been suggested 
many times that if a person needs 100% compatibility with MSO, use MSO. 
  Plain, simple and to the point.

Andy

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