On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 13:24:39 PM +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker ([email protected]) wrote: > On 23/10/2010 11:09, RL MacGregor wrote: > > > >If I might be so bold, I hope that neither ever have an interface > >like the current offering from redmond! I have to use it at Uni > > > I'm very surprised you HAVE to use MS Office at University. Surely > as long as your submissions are in the correct format, the > University shouldn't give a damn what software you use
Not true at all in the real world, due to not absolutely perfect compatibility (which is impossible to achieve). See what I wrote about the "educator" quoted in the recent Microsoft video: http://stop.zona-m.net/node/198 the part that proves that (unfortunately, of course), you should not be surprised if students have problems to use OOo at home, starts at item 3 of the list: "Schools often help to enforce this dependency" and more info is 2 paragraphs below. Marco -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
