they do make point about the bugs they report
(hebrew in import of excel hebrew in written presentations no hebrew help)
and the fact is users would need to wait till 2.0 to have some
of the hebrew bugs fixed, which is too bad..


Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel



On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:20:54AM +0200, Shoshannah Forbes wrote:
> > This time in Maariv:
> > http://images.maariv.co.il/channels/13/ART/597/151.html
>
> Great review. I learned a lot from it. Now where can I get MS-Office 2003
> for 600NIS?
>
> A number of counter-pointes:
>
> * Some of OpenOffice's stronger points were not represented [fill in
>   please]
>
> * OOo is free. Really. No strings attached. This is not an easy point to
>   get through, so let's use one little point from the article:
>   "MS-Office 2003 is only supported for w2k SP3 and on XP.". An obvious
>   question comes to mind: if you have a different system what would you
>   install to read MS Office 2003 documents? Right, OOo.
>
>   (Not a direct consequence, but a nice demonstration)
>
> * MS's PR contact was contacted and has a nice comment attached. The
>   Nobody from OpenOffice/Sun/Hamakor seems to have been contacted
>   (right?)
>
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen                       +---------------------------+
> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend|
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]       +---------------------------+
>

לענות