Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 129.246.254.228]
on August 22, 2007 03:20 PM
I don't know ANYONE who is foolish enough to upgrade to Office 2007. There's absolutely nothing in Office 2007 that would compel anyone to upgrade, and there are a massive number of drawbacks. Office 2007 has a completely different user interface - can you spell "really expensive retraining?". Office 2007 has a radically different file format, that NOBODY else can handle. If you have ANY Macs, anywhere in your company, you can't use the format. If you interact with people who use older versions of Office, you can't either. The XML format is inadequately documented, so the potential benefits of XML are drowned out. And even if you save in ".doc" format from 2007, many other organizations can't handle the format (including the magazine "Nature") FROM THEN ON. So Office 2007 basically corrupts files - who needs that?
Meanwhile, there are LOTS of OpenOffice.org users, as well as other users of OpenDocument. The latest stats show that there are MORE OpenDocument files than Microsoft 2007 files.
I have no doubt that Sun will eventually fix this plugin problem. But since almost no one USES Office 2007 - and won't for some time - Sun has lots of time to fix it. I'm glad they released the plugin NOW, so that the 99.999% of Office users who AVOID Office 2007 can use it NOW.
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OpenOffice.org has more users than Office 2007
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 129.246.254.228] on August 22, 2007 03:20 PMMeanwhile, there are LOTS of OpenOffice.org users, as well as other users of OpenDocument. The latest stats show that there are MORE OpenDocument files than Microsoft 2007 files.
I have no doubt that Sun will eventually fix this plugin problem. But since almost no one USES Office 2007 - and won't for some time - Sun has lots of time to fix it. I'm glad they released the plugin NOW, so that the 99.999% of Office users who AVOID Office 2007 can use it NOW.
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