Dan Kegel wrote: > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Lars Nooden<[email protected]> wrote: >> [email protected] wrote: >>> Excuse me from using you again, but I thought you might want to know. I >>> have a >>> friend who was very keen to install OOo, and then went as cold as ice. She >>> has been >>> told that Open Office will interfere and destroy her MS installed >>> programs... >> >> From whom did she hear that? Specifics would help tracking this down. > > It's kind of true, from the simple user perspective. > We installed OOo 2.x on a friend's computer, and > it did take over the .doc bindings. But calling that "destroying installed programs" is an exaggeration. Especially as users could prevent OOo from doing this even in OOo2.x or could change the file association back.
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