Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 85.176.149.214]
on August 26, 2007 08:55 AM
This is not a problem of Sun and OpenOffice.org, but one of Microsoft. Of course, it would be good, if the plugin worked for all versions of Windoze and M$Office, so that nobody could say, he wasn't able to bring me his documents in odf-format. But which software does really work with Vista? How should Sun make a plugin that works with Office07 when M$ does all to keep people from knowing, how their things work? Even Microsofts own Software doesn't work with their own products (see M$ Powertoys for XP for instance).
I think the question is more, why should I use Office07 and a Sun plugin, when I could use a better programm (OOo) for more than 400$ less and with the guarantee to use free software? And what is even more, why should I use Vista and Office07? As long as I am not forced to do, I won't!!
So please, before you point the finger at Sun, ask yourself, what M$ did to support the international standard odf. And then ask yourself, if there is a way to avoid Vista and Office07 and use either Linux or a better version of Windows and M$Office.
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Sun ODF plugin chokes on Office 2007
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 85.176.149.214] on August 26, 2007 08:55 AMI think the question is more, why should I use Office07 and a Sun plugin, when I could use a better programm (OOo) for more than 400$ less and with the guarantee to use free software? And what is even more, why should I use Vista and Office07? As long as I am not forced to do, I won't!!
So please, before you point the finger at Sun, ask yourself, what M$ did to support the international standard odf. And then ask yourself, if there is a way to avoid Vista and Office07 and use either Linux or a better version of Windows and M$Office.
just my 2 cents
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