On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:01:48PM +0300, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> >Paraphrasing on that:
> >
> >When I upgraded from MS-Word to OOo I also had some problems of
> >incompatibility.  Some old documents looked differently with OOo.  
> >But once you upgrade a document, you don't use it with the old 
> >MS-Office version.  So you need to upgrade each document only once.  And
> >the changes are minor (mainly in Hebrew documents).
> 
> It seems as you never have to communicate with people who are not
> computer geeks.  

My mother?

> You know there are people who don't use OO out there.
> If you send them an OO document, they will try to open it with (god
> forbid) MS office! 

OOo can be installed alongside a different version of MS-Office. The
newer version of Office can't. This means that the upgrade of MS-Office 
is a more painful action than installing OpenOffice.

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