On Apr 20, 2009, at 2:45 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2009/04/19 9:25 PM Brian Barker wrote:
At 15:39 19/04/2009 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On the home page of www.openoffice.org, click on "I want to
download OpenOffice.org" and then (assuming you are using some
form of Windows) on the "Download now!" link. (For other systems,
and additional information, there is another link below that. You
then would need to find the appropriate Download link in the table
it provides.)
You seem to think that the web site always offers the Windows
version by default. Are you sure? For what it's worth, I assumed
that it auto-detects the user's operating system (from information
provided by the browser) and offers the *appropriate* version. But
I haven't tested this.
When you click on "I want to download OpenOffice.org" on the home
page of www.openoffice.org it auto-detects the operating system you
are using. I get the following:
Download now!
Start downloading OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 for Mac OSX Intel in US
English
This is true; however, clicking that option produces an error message
because the site doesn't have 3..0.1 for OSX. One is directed then to
a different page, which gives the impression that 2.4.0 is the latest
version for OSX. (And it apparently is, as far as official releases
are concerned, but there are later and better rc versions.) Worse,
there's no indication of which OSX versions 2.4.0 is compatible with
(turns out this is 10.4 and 10.5) so, if you're using an earlier
version, you get a download that won't run on your system and no clue
where to find one that will. I've been a victim of all these
oversights and have seen posts here from others.
I reported these problems to the webmaster months ago, yet they remain.
Dave
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