At the risk of adding to the "political" noise... On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 09:46:12 -0400 Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote:
[snip] > For MS Office, the formats ending with > "x" is a problem even for their older version. MSO 2007 might have > trouble reading DOCX files created from the newer versions, even > though they are all called a DOCX file. MSO keeps changing things > inside the "x" file formats, especially the latest version. > [snip] > > Still get some "x" files emailed to me and most work fine for me > and LibreOffice. It seems that every major version release of > LibreOffice seems to get these "x" documents to read better and > better - for those few that do not work well. I have a Windows > laptop that has some Word "reader" packages from MS and the > problem .docx files are a problem with the latest Word reader I > use. SO it may not be LibreOffice but the version of MS Office > that sends me these documents. [snip] Yup. In fact: I've seen where people send "x" files to my coworkers, coworker sends HelpDesk complaint "I can't read this file," I have them try LibréOffice, and LibréOffice renders it just fine. Hasn't happened often, but it has happened. It's important for individuals and businesses to understand this: For-profit companies make money off selling you stuff (duh). They can't sell you a New Thing if you're happy with the Old Thing. How might demand for the New Thing be... enhanced? Well, I suppose one way *might* be that what the New Thing creates is subtly incompatible with the Old Thing. Not that I'd accuse anybody of *purposely* doing such a thing--unless it was, you know, necessary or unavoidable ;) At work we're avoiding that problem, to the extent possible, by standardizing on MS-Win7 and MSO 2007. (The former because it's not too different from MS-WinXP, the latter because it's the latest that most installs already had.) It's getting increasingly difficult to find *legitimate* copies of retail versions of these packages, but we expect to have the entire organization's upgrade cycle completed before the supply dries up entirely. N.B.: For many installs we first try installing only LibréOffice, and only buy & install MSO if LO absolutely will not work for the user. As for home: I solved the entire problem once-and-for-all by replacing my wife's MS-Win install with Linux Mint. (MS-Win8 was the last straw, even for her.) Mind you: I *used* to actually recommend Microsoft solutions for many users (with caveats). Wouldn't use it, myself, because it just did not work for me--for the way I use computers. (Nor did Apple solutions.) I feel I can no longer, in good conscience, do so--for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the never-ending incompatibility/upgrade issue, and its associated costs--which are not insignificant. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php>. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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
