On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:48, Robin Laing wrote: >Gregory L. Forster wrote: >> A while ago, I wrote an email: I have two computers. One in the >> dining room has Microsoft Office and the one in my basement office >> has OpenOffice.org 2.0.1. In the dining room, using Excel, I >> created a spreadsheet. It was a large spreadsheet . I wanted to do >> some data manipulation, but couldn't. The icons were "grayed out" >> which prevented me from manipulating the data the way I wanted. I >> asked my son (who learned Excel in college) how to do what I wanted >> and that I could not understand why Excel would prevent me from >> doing something so mundane. After explaining to me that Excel in >> school wouldn't do it either, he calmly said, "Welcome to the world >> of Microsoft bugs." >> I then went to my basement office computer and read the Excel >> spreadsheet into OpenOffice. I had absolutely no problem doing what >> I wanted to do originally with Excel, but couldn't. >> >> In another instance, my son created a Microsoft Powerpoint project >> at college. He wanted to finish it at home. He couldn't use the one >> in the dining room, because that was an older version of Powerpoint. >> So again, we went downstairs and used OpenOffice. He was absolutely >> amazed at how similar to Microsoft Powerpoint, that OpenOffice was. >> He even stated that it was nice to use a program that performed. >> >> Microsoft Office would be a great program, , , , , , , IF IT WAS >> RELIABLE! ! ! ! ! ! >> >> OpenOffice 10 years behind Microsoft? I D-O-N-'-T T-H-I-N-K S-O! >> >> Greg > >I ran into similar issues when I started at this job. The computer I >was given was old and well used. It had an older version of Corel >Office on it (which I love) but I needed a newer spreadsheet. I went >to IT and got the disks for Office 2000 (?) and installed it. Great, >at least until I went to do some things. It turned out that I needed >to install certain features as options. Normal things like import >filters. Arg. > >Well, I was given some work by my supervisor and I couldn't open the >files. I went to IT who gave me an Office disk and tried to install >the necessary options. Guess what, the disk from IT was not the one >that I had installed with originally and would not work. I spent a >day trying to find the correct disk. What a pain. And we have site >licenses for all our MSO software. > >A few months later I installed OOo on the computer and all problems >except the import of WP documents were solved. I was happy. Now I am >working with Linux and I am even happier.
And this is the typical horror story that M$ refuses to acknowledge even exists. You may have a site license alright, but AFATAC, its still up to you to track the serial numbers of the cd's used to install each machine. In their mind, its not their problem, but yours, in a typical pass the buck operation such as M$ is. This exact scenario is one that OSS folks need to exploit on a case by case basis until such time as we finally change how M$ does business. Until such time of course, its not going to change, and M$ will resort to all sorts of FUD and legal sabre rattling for years before any REAL change will be made. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
