Apr 15, 2009 09:15:07 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Alan Bourke wrote:
> All software companies do this from time to time. On one hand they have
> people complaining about apps becoming more bloated, so what do you do?
> Take out what you consider to be little-used functionality. Of course
> this one has bit MS on the ass because it turns out quite a few people
> *did* use Excel to save to DBF.
>It would seem so, but why don't they put it back in? Can it really be
>that hard??????
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All my recommendations push people to OpenOffice. It supports DBFs wonderfully.
And, once the folks get their hands on OO, they are likely to drop MS Office
eventually. Just recently I've found out a couple sizeable companies have
frozen on Office 2003 while they roll out OpenOffice in their corp (I
recommended OO to them a couple years ago when they were having some weird
compatibility problem between MS Office docs and other software).
There really is no reason to be using MS Office any more, and people are
finally realizing MS's goal is their own market share, not what is useful to
the user.
I guess I shouldn't complain about the stupid things MS does like this.
Because, in the end, it simply pushes people to open software faster (and it
will sometimes even "wake up" the lazy "computer professionals").
-Charlie
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