Reverse experience here. I stopped doing maintenance on my computers after I dumped Windows. Best move I ever made, it freed up a ton of time for more productive things.
As to Microsoft giving us universal communications - horse manure. It was MicroPro that did that, with WordStar, back when the most advanced Microsoft editor was EDLIN.COM Wayne On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:26 AM, <t...@iafrica.com> wrote: > Do not forget that MS Op Systems and Office apps gave us universal > communication. Apart > from the occasional blue screen, my XP runs without hassle. With Linux I > get the feeling that > like dedicated lovers of Series 2 Landrovers, you have to be seriously > technical and keep > your spanners with you at all times. > > I long for the day I can use LibO, knowing any document I create can be > read by business > colleagues world-wide on MS systems. > > Right now that's not the case, for example each time I send an Impress file > to an MS PP user > and it blows up it further demonstrates the gulf that currently exists > between open and closed > systems. > > Much as though I detest the latest edition of powerpoint and it's anal GUI, > I have no choice > but to use it.... I can't afford the time to write in Impress and then > spend a day trying to make > it work in PP. > > If you really want to hurt Uncle Bob then LibO must get it's act to > together asap and ensure > all LibO office apps are compatible to the extent that it allows trouble > free document > exchange between the open and closed systems. > > That way the MS user brigade will get confidence and hopefully may switch > over... but until > that day then Uncle Bob will rule the roost. > > Maybe someone can answer this?.... when will a LibO developer(s) focus on > compatibility > between MS and LibO.... and realise the way to sink MS is to prove > reliability and > compatibility in LibO. > > Meantime will someone please resolve why Impress (slides) with embedded > sound files > loses them when trying to convert to ppt? In addition why LibO Impress can > sometimes lose > the audiofile links (to MP3 files) all on it's own! without any help from > PP, > > Meantime i try and use LibO as much as is practical but am forced to use MS > office > whenever it's for distribution. > > Sad. > > > Timi > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
