and that's the reason I've been praising LO :-)
as well as Gizmo's site - verified, tested programs for any
computer.
The best publishing programs, ... can be acquired through Gizmo's -
and no worry re. having to re-purchase if the HD should die ;-)
these in combination with LO is all any laptop needs ...
and many folks have switched from the desktop PC to the
laptops;
actually many of these are now switching to the even
smaller hand-held devices -
[ I'm so far not interested in swapping from the
lap-top ;-) ]
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi :)
> On the other hand MS Office still does not support many features of
> LibreOffice yet either. Plus a LOT of the functionality of MS Office
> depends on you buying the 'right' bundle and then buying extra apps on top
> of whatever is included in the bundle. For example the Student's version
> of MSO doesn't include Publisher or Access. Plus their default formats
> rely on everyone using the same version and the same OS as the person that
> created the document and only really works on desktop machines. Plus all
> the security issues that MS documents and the app has suffered from over
> the years are almost entirely avoided by Libreoffice and all the other
> OpenSource office programs. Will MSO ever catch up on security or
> cross-platform compatibility?
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> >
> > From: Urmas <[email protected]>
> >To: [email protected]
> >Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 13:42
> >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0
> >
> >"Chad Homan" <[email protected]>:
> >> My question is, is LO 4.0 suppose to be the release that supports 120%
> of MSO97.
> >
> >Not yet, it does not support 100% of MS Word 2.0 (from 1992) yet.
> >
> >Of course it has some bells and whistles and even a couple of useful
> features, but still no cigar.
> >
>
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