Hi :) I suspect that "compatible" means that it will work but that gestures and other stuff may not work fully and reliably. Does MSO 2007 support gestures? I doubt it. Some may work if the OS can access the relevant controls. From the original question i got the impression the person meant more than just working adequately and really wanted to know if everything was fully integrated and fully working. Hence why i said i doubt anything is properly fully Win8 ready.
The separate track-pad looks quite nice. Not quite my cupp-tea although i like to play around with things like that for a while sometimes. When i was working in an accountancy practice i would have quite like a separate number-pad but only if it had a Tab key, to jump into the net field without having to reach for the mouse. The only ones i have seen are either thousands of pounds or miss crucial keys such as + and - let alone other useful ones such as Tab. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> >To: 'Tom Davies' <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk>; 'ubuysa' ><tonycros...@yahoo.co.uk>; users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Friday, 14 December 2012, 16:55 >Subject: Windows 8 Compatibility (was RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: 0xc0000005 >error in RPCRT4.dll from soffice.bin) > >@Tom, > >What do you mean by "Win8 ready?" > >Do you mean integration with multi-touch, the additional UI provisions, or >what? > >If you mean certified for Windows 8, it will depend on whether the >requirements for that have been worked through. I know of no reason why >LibreOffice can't achieve that. I don't know if it has been done. I'd be >very surprised if older versions of Office don't already satisfy the essential >requirements. > >If you mean compatible with Windows 8, anything that is compatible with >Windows 7 should work. > >I just ran the Windows 8 Upgrade Advisor on my aging Tablet PC, running >Windows XP SP3. It turns out that I can't upgrade because the processor on >that machine does not have hardware NX support, and Windows 8 requires it as >part of the tighter security with which it operates. > >However, on the review of software that needed to be upgraded or that is not >supported, Office 2007 was listed as Compatible. In addition, on that >particular machine, the Upgrade Advisor listed this software as compatible: > >OpenOffice.org 3.4.1 >Apache Software Foundation > >I'm confident, when I run the Windows 8 Upgrade Advisor where I have >LibreOffice installed, I will see a similar encouraging result. > >- Dennis > >PS: You can purchase boxed Microsoft Office 2013. It is very pricey. Here, >we'll be renting, since one single lease will cover all of our multiple >household machines and provide all of the Office components used here. It >will be much easier to have the same version of Office on all systems going >forward. It was too expensive to do that before. > >Some Personal Windows 8 Preparations: > >Something else I'm doing to prepare cutting over full to Windows 8 (with older >Windows and with Linux running in VMs for my document forensics work). >Logitech makes a Wireless Rechargeable Touchpad that provides multi-touch >gestures and other features. I am going to use it to replace my mouse on >Windows 7 and also confirm it with Windows 8 ahead of fully upgrading to >Windows 8: ><http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/touchpad-t650> > >On Windows 7, there are multi-touch gestures that can work to zoom, scroll, >etc. > >On Windows 8, additional touch features supported by the operating system will >also work. This allows me to keep my primary desktop system and its non-touch >30" monitor. > >The touchpad should be superior to working with only a mouse and knowing all >the keyboard shortcuts that make Windows 8 operable without touch (and useful, >though, for accessibility and integration with assistive devices). I expect >that LibreOffice integration should be fine, the same as for Windows 7. (I >also have added Office 2013 Preview installed on Windows 8, but I haven't put >it through its paces there. I don't know if there are additional Windows 8 >behaviors or if it also runs essentially the same as on Windows 7.) > >-----Original Message----- >From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk] >Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 05:00 >To: ubuysa; users@global.libreoffice.org >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 0xc0000005 error in RPCRT4.dll from >soffice.bin > >Hi :) >Is anything Win8 ready? MS Office 2010 and 2007 aren't. With a new platform >like that it usually takes a while for people to find work-arounds and even >longer for the program to update to integrate better. For MSO that will >probably involve sitting out their newest version, MSO 365 and then buy their >next one (or rent as i'm not sure you can pay a one-off fee and then keep >using 'forever' any more). >Regards from >Tom :) > > > > > >>________________________________ >> From: ubuysa <tonycros...@yahoo.co.uk> >>To: users@global.libreoffice.org >>Sent: Friday, 14 December 2012, 9:22 >>Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: 0xc0000005 error in RPCRT4.dll from >>soffice.bin >> >>Don, >> >>Thanks for your suggestion, I did do a Google search before posting on here >>and none of the replies were terribly helpful. >> >>I have found a temporary solution; setting compatibility mode for >>swriter.exe to Windows 7 removes the problem completely. I'm now wondering >>whether LO 3.6 is truly Windows 8 ready? >> >>Thank you everyone for helping. >> >> >> >>-- >>View this message in context: >>http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/0xc0000005-error-in-RPCRT4-dll-from-soffice-bin-tp4023874p4024319.html >>Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >>-- >>For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >>Problems? >>http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted >> >> >> >> >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
