Steve C. Thompson wrote:
Stand-alone viewers exist for MS Office files meaning that you don't have to have Office installed to view them. These viewers are freely available from Microsoft.
So I have to use Microsoft Windows? What if I find GNU/Linux better for me?
If you prefer GNU/Linux, you launch Open Office and you import the files. ;-)
I understand and I try to contribute to change their minds too, but it's not easy. I installed OpenOffice at the office and now the boss complains because the documents he typed home in MS Word are messed up in some places...
This means that we have to have "simple" lightweight viewers for OOo files to avoid people downloading a 60Mb installer when they just want to read a document.
I'm not talking about simple viewers, I'm talking about people changing their ways and editing documents that aren't in secret formats.
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