Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: LibreOffice 4.0

Hi :)
Only MS Office 2007 and 2010 are available on Mac.  They are re-named as 2008 and 2011 but 
basically are pretty much the same.  However there are compatibility issues with documents produced 
on one platform and then viewed on the other.  Documents produced with 2007 don't always look at 
all right on 2010 let alone 2011.  If produced in 2010 on Win Xp then even MS admits they wont look 
right on 2010 on Win7, nor Win8.  Their idea of 'compatibility' is that everyone must be using the 
same version on the same OS.  

Also while a student may not be considered to need various different parts of MSO it is still often 
claimed that moving away from MSO might be a bad idea for them because it means doing without those 
apps that are not even included in their version of MSO.  Then there are tons of other bundles that 
each lack different parts of the whole suite.  Again the missing parts are used as reasons why 
people can't migrate away from MSO.  

I have just been helping 2 students on courses that are allegedly trying to teach about computers 
and the Access module parts were particularly tricky as they didn't have Access at home despite 
having bought the version of MSO that the colleges recommended.  So many different bundles = so 
much confusion.  

Rtf is no longer being actively developed.  Also,  as is typical of MS formats, it fails to be 
compatible between different programs or even same programs on different OSes, let alone different 
platforms.  I've never yet met any office worker using Biff.  

Almost all serious servers run non-MS platforms.  Somewhere around 1%.  Mostly it's small company 
servers but again they tend to go with unix-based platforms because of security issues.  

Mobile devices seem to almost entirely run non-MS.  The Slate's sales have been appallingly lower 
than estimated.  The only person i know of that has run a Windows phone found it started crashing 
after just 2 weeks and at best is suffering slowdowns already.  

All the 3rd party tools for reading documents that are in MS formats  tend to be better at 
displaying LibreOffice documents because it's usually their native format too.    
Regards from
Tom :) 





> ________________________________
> From: Urmas <davian818@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 14:07
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: LibreOffice 4.0
>
> "Tom Davies":
>
> On the other hand MS Office still does not support many features of LibreOffice yet either.
>
> Like custom toolbar backgrounds? I think people can live without those.
>
> > For example the Student's version of MSO doesn't include Publisher or Access.
>
> Why does a student need Publisher? Why does they need Access when they can have the real SQL 
> server for free?
>
> >   Plus their default formats ... only really work on desktop machines.
>
> Both BIFF and RTF are trivially parsed and can be used on servers as well.
>
> > Will MSO ever catch up on security or cross-platform compatibility?
>
> There are third-party solutions which handle Office documents on mobile devices. The two only 
> desktop platforms, Windows and MacOSX are both using MSO. What compatibility? 
>
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