Gordon wrote: > Twayne wrote: > >> >> I believe it IS a hardship for many, because it's new, must be rolled >> out if they're a company or on a LAN, > > To return to the discussion of the Sun ODF plugin for MS Office that > won't work on Office 97 - if the OP's correspondents are in a > corporate > or company environment, what the f**k are they doing still using > Office 97? The OP should be encouraging them to move to OO if they > are still using that awful (and unsupported and insecure and buggy) > version of Office > > Just my 2p worth....
Yeah, I agree. Except for the "corporate" part, I could amost see some small mom & pop having the problem but not a corporation as one usually envisions such. But even so, OO.o can still back rev .doc's to office 97 formats, so it's still a workable situation. And a beautiful way to bring them forward by politicing for OO.o for their use. Unfortunately though, going from win97 to OO.o is going to be quite a learning curve for them; moreso than going from XP to OO.o at least. This is a case where OO should be presented as a great, free upgrade for them rather than an Office replacement. Aside: You know, there is still a piece of win95 I've always brought forward with me as I worked myself up thru the various versions of windows: Cardfile.exe. I had an extensive Rolodex assembled with it, and have just never had the time to convert it to anything more current versions could read. Besides, other than missing a few bells & whistles, it works perfectly, is fast, and works well; there's nothing annoying about it to make me work hard to upgrade it. Doesn't even need compatability mode <G>. I tried to run it on a client's Vista Basic once: nuh, uh! Looks lke the end of the line for it. HTH, Twayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
