On Friday 19 January 2007 7:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> Mature student about to go in the real world out there, about to
> buy new computer on credit with Windows Vista Premium home/Small
> Business, need to buy student version of CAD (can't afford the
> commercial version), Coreldraw student version also, Microsoft
> office Home/Student or Small Business...Suddenly the software
> expense is amounting to almost half as much as the hardware I need
> ! ... and I start raving and runting about how much a rip off this
> is and how Win 95 and Win 98 packages included office as standard
> and in those days you could get free downloads on other
> softwares... so my son told me about openoffice ... great idea ...
> happy to make donation ... however my son does not know if
> openoffice will be compatible with "Windows Vista" latest Bill
> Gates baby ! which seems to come with every offer that fits my
> needs, budget and cash flow situation.
>
> I contacted you a couple of days ago and haven't heard from you
> yet.
>
> Please help the single mother on a new career path who has to keep
> up with computer technology and who is building a headache trying
> to do a good job of it on a limited budjet !
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ghislaine
Hear is a copy of your answer as it appeared on the mailing list.
I am providing it since you you're not a member of this list and no
one sent you a copy before.
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OpenOffice.org runs fine on Vista. The current version (2.1) has some
minor bugs that are only annoyances (e.g. OOo uses the "old" file
dialog instead of the pretty(?) new one from Vista). They will be
fixed in OpenOffice.org 2.2
Some problems with system integration (e.g. showing thumbnails and
document property columns in the Explorer) are known that can't be
fixed until Microsoft publishes the necessary interfaces. :-(
But they will not have any impact on running OpenOffice.org. You can
use it on Vista as you can on XP.
Ciao,
Mathias
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Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer
OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS
Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
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As an additional note, there are manuals for OOo 2.1 available
at http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/. You might find at
least some of these well worthwhile.
Dan
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