__/ [ Maverick ] on Friday 09 March 2007 22:47 \__
> Tim Smith wrote:
>
>> On 2007-03-09, mlw <mlw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>I have used OpenOffice.Org since it was "Star Office," and prefer it to MS
>>>office. I have no problem producing documents that can be read by MS
>>>Office, and I haven't seen a single "real" (as in from a client or friend)
>>>document it couldn't read. I have seen documents crafted to show
>>>OpenOffice.Org weaknesses, but I have never gotten a document, let me
>>>rephrase that, I vaguely recall having a problems with an OOOLLLD version
>>>of Star Office, but since OpenOffice.Org, I have not had one problem
>>>reading or sending documents to users of MS Office.
>>
>>
>> But Roy has told us (many times) that Office suffers from horrible
>> vendor lock. Once you use it, you are forever stuck, the story goes.
>>
>
> And the story is true. That is what M$ does best... moving the
> screeching goal posts. They do it to throw off the competition.
Why does Microsoft offer Office 2007 to Australian students for just AUS$75?
Because MSO07 'extends' what it known to be compatible with OOo2.x. I have
used OOo several time before (I prefer LyX/TeX, but not for
bells-and-whistle-rich presentations). I know that everything which I tried
(including complex macros from Office 2003) just works!
Why Australia you ask? Perhaps because of stuff like this:
Office 2007 may be Microsoft's Titanic: former Government IT boss
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| Bill Gates has been talking up Office 2007 ahead of its business launch
| on November 30. However, the recently departed deputy CIO of one of
| Australia's biggest government Microsoft sites believes introducing
| the new version of Microsoft Office may be the company's biggest
| ever disaster.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7234/53/
When you lock crucial data, you control the user. And I needn't go further
than yesterday's news to prove this...
Microsoft, DOD to build medical data warehouse
,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft isn't doing this for the money. According to the article,
| no funds are changing hands. But the company will get to work with data
| -- a lot of it.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=309
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| Microsoft isn't doing this for the money.
|
| No, but when they're done that's going to be an awful lot of DoD data
| that won't be accessible without Microsoft's cooperation.
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http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=31110&messageID=576835&start=-1
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