When the US gov went to word from wordperfect sometime around 1994, pretty much everybody who interacted with the government went to MS Office within a year or so. I expect we will see a similar effect from Brazil and other governments moving to OFF. When I installed 3.4 on windows 7 and on Ubuntu Linux, I was given an option to allow or not allow OO to open MS formats by default. The problem may be that the default state of the check-boxes is for the file association to be with OO. Recently my copy of MS Office 2010 stole back the associations, so I had to fix them to point back to OO3.4. Thus I can appreciate the feelings of the original post.
Wolf PS Sorry for the top-post. Writing this from my phone. http://evergreen-community-01.lyrasistechnology.org http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: [email protected] On Jun 2, 2012 8:58 AM, "Paulo de Souza Lima" <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/6/2 Gavin McDonald <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Graham Wright [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Saturday, 2 June 2012 2:01 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I often wonder why somebody that has Microsoft Office would have the > > > need to install Open Office anyway! > > > Isn't Open Office mainly for those people who cannot afford, or who are > > > unwilling to pay for Microsoft Office? > > > > Perhaps to evaluate it , compare etc, so that next time renewal/upgrade > of > > MS > > Office comes long, they might decide the free OOo is good enough instead. > > One can't decide which is best without trying. > > > > Also, on this 'dev' list, you will find many (such as me) with both for > > testing purposes. > > (This apparent error obviously slipped the net) > > > > Gav... > > > > > Hi. > > That's not the case for this issue, but many governments (Brasil is the > best example I can giveyou) are choosing ODF as the standard format for > documents. Ms Windows 2007 and below aren 't able to open ODF files. That's > one reason why many people have another office suite installed in their > computers. > > Regards > > -- > Paulo de Souza Lima > http://almalivre.wordpress.com > Curitiba - PR > Linux User #432358 > Ubuntu User #28729 >
