OT: Microsoft crazy academic deal - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Aug 2008

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 -----Original Message-----
From: Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Sent 8/21/2008 1:36:07 AM
To: General Discussion GeneralDiscussion@
Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft crazy academic deal

Eric J Korpela wrote:
  Funny, but OpenOffice is still free.

tonym wrote:
 Funny, but it's still not fully Office 2007 compatible.

Funny, but that's one of OpenOffice's best features. It does the stuff 
I need, without nearly as much useless bloat as MS Office 2007. I deal 
with Word and Excel documents routinely, and although I occasionally run 
into one that uses an exotic feature not in OpenOffice, it's never been 
anything that prevented me from doing what I need with the document.

Funniest, is that "feature" makes it unusable at, oh, 9 out of 10 universities
in this country, and countless
numbers of businesses. I know I couldn't use it at work - it wouldn't open hardly
anything.

I'd me MORE than happy to install OpenOffice on my wife's laptop...
But what is she to do when the send her stuff in Office 2007 format, which OO can't
open?

Don't get me wrong - I'm not pro Microsoft, or anything. This is just a tool that
my wife needs in school,
and it was cheap. Obviously, by installing OO 2.4.1 and trying to open some of her docs
from her last
semester, OO isn't going to cut it. It opened 3 out of 17,and the rest, it wanted me
to go through a HUGE list of formats to choose one,of which most Office 2007 stuff was
missing. Office jsut knows what it is.

Couldn't even open the PowerPoint presentations at all.

Tony