Ilyse Kazar wrote:
What
would be the situation if due to problems like this I am forced back to
MS products, will they make *.odt documents unreadable?
You will not be forced back.
Have you tried reinstalling OO? Usually this is the simplest fix for
end-users to re-associate an extension with an application ... and
highly preferable to mucking about in the registry unless you really
know what you're doing in there. (I don't, and I refuse to touch the
registry on Windows boxes after one very sorry experience)
Actually, it's easy to re-associate the files. Just right click on the
icon, select "Open with" and choose the app. Also check "Always use the
selected..."
Really like Open Office so hope you can help my concerns and you need to
know of MS problems if that's what is happening?
Well, if by reinstalling OOo you regain both your ability to
double-click .odt files and have OOo launch, and your confidence that
you can rectify the disassociation of the extension by simply
reinstalling OOo ... it would be very interesting indeed to reinstall MS
Word Viewer and see if the same thing happens again. But nothing would
look worse for MS right now, for reasons of recent history that would be
too long (and inappropriate perhaps) to enumerate here, than to write
their installers so as to deliberately mess up consumers' ability to use
the software they choose on their computers.
btw, Dennis, you seem to have a healthy fear of MS. Have you considered
switching to Linux (there are some great new Linux desktop distributions
that would be very familiar to a Windows user) or Mac? There is no way
to be "MS-free" on a Windows box, obviously. Sounds like you'd be less
stressed with a different set-up (and this is said in full recognition
of the value of many MS products and the comfort with which many folks
use them ... I am speaking specifically to Dennis here, to his
expressions of extreme concern, and not intending to start a platform
war. I work on and earn money writing software for all platforms.)
I second that. When I have to use Windows, I feel as though I'm working
with one hand tied behind my back.
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