On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:26 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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?????? > > -------- > > > > 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"). -------------------------------
I found that OO had a problem with macros in spreedsheet an earlier version. They just wouldn't mesh up for the forecasting that they were programmed for. Extreme case I know but just as you think it going to do what you expect this is a heads up on an issue that I fought a lot of hours on back in 2006 or 2007. I put OO on my son's notebook and his gf's as well. They just have to do papers for school so it is fine for them. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Web and Windows Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
