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Am doing a Power Point presentation about Linux.
Calum:
i reckon if they were confused, it would show how confused they really were. any fool can use openoffice that can use Microsoft or star offices...
as for powerpoint, as far as i have seen openoffice is totally compatible with it filewise.
X11 once sent me a file he had made in openoffice, and it ran fine in M$ powerpoint for macOS9 so there you go.
Pantso:
I totally agree with Calum. M$ Office apps are still compatible with StarOffice or OpenOffice.org filewise. However, as I've read in LXF magazine once, it is very possible that the next version of M$ Office will use incompatible file extensions with any other OS :mad: ! I really hope this won't happen since I still have to edit Word documents in StarOffice. You see, not everyone uses Linux or other *UNIX type OSes. We seem to be the exception to the rule ;)
PS. Hey bazoukas, knock them dead man! Skistous tous malakes. Mathe tous kai kati allo ektos apo Windoze! Good luck man!
Bazoukas:
mas exoun priksei ta paparia pantso.
Exo ena kathigiti pou lei oti oi Europaioi eine pio brosta sto programatismo giati aploustata de xrisimopoioun Windows.
Mas exei priksei ta arxidia o malakotriftis o Bill Gates edo pera.
Pantso:
Ase file mou ki edo ta idia kai xeirotera! Na skefteis oti ta 3/4 den kseroun ti tha pei Linux! Nomizoun oti einai kapoio paixnidaki! eftixos yparxoun kai Ellhnes xrhstes Linux! Koita edo:
http://www.linux.gr
kai edo:
http://www.hellug.gr
Na sou po kai ta kal nea! Balane Linux sta sxoleia.To pisteveis? Logo kostous vevaia, etsi?
Kalh sou tyxh me thn ergasia file mou! To ellhniko myalo panta yperexei!
[ September 11, 2002: Message edited by: Pantso ]
Calum:
hey! computer people are supposed to be geeks, not greeks!
re: M$' closed file formats, hah! the M$ office format constantly runs away from people who try to open it up, and those people keep on chasing after it. This has happened before, with the seminal office utilities that used to come with windows 2 and 3. try opening up an old .doc file from windows 2 with a copy of word 2000 for instance!
Now Microsoft could have it one of two ways, if they insist on beginning a totally new line of file types:
1) they could allow users to pick "save as... old" or "save as... new" when saving. they would also put a bunch of dialogue boxes saying how you could lose a lot of functionality if you choose old, and i bet that fucking paper clip will have something to say about it too.
2) they could just allow the new file format and that's it.
Now, to discuss. With option one many users will choose "old" because many users still have pre XP versions of windows and pre XP versions of office and so on. Most company images are windows 2000 or windows 98 or even windows 95. So what would be the point in "save as... new" when the minute you have saved the document, you cannot send it to anybody and it is unreadable to any machine except the one you are currently using?
with option two, this problem is the same, however the choice will no loner be there, forcing users to save in a file format they did not ask for and do not need.
Now add to the mix the fact that Microsoft applications are no longer 'products', they are now 'services'. And you know what that means? it means that you do not pay for them once, you lease them per quarter.
So people will take one look at this new office suite and realise that it has no new functions that their old one did not have EXCEPT the fact that
a) it is no longer compatible with the "standard"
b) it now costs a shitload more if you want to use it for any length of time
c) it will be an administrative headache when it comes to auditing the licences
So my feeling is that Microsoft thinks it is invincible, but that this time it will find out it has bitten off more than it can chew. Users and admins are NOT as gullible as they perhaps were ten, fifteen years ago.
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