[tdf-discuss] Re: OpenOffice dead and burried?

> There are *millions* of users that are still using WinXP and older
> versions of MS Office (think schools, libraries, individuals, small
> companies, government offices, etc). Granted the ideal situation would
> be to have all of them install LO, but we know: 1) that just isn't going
> to happen, 2) and even if they do install LO, they are not going to
> purge their existing versions of MS Office... it just doesn't work that
> way.
>
> An ODF plugin (like the Sun ODF Plugin) could go a long way in gaining
> trust for existing MS Office users, particularly if it does an LO
> splashscreen when starting as the Sun one does. However, I also imagine
> that creating/converting/maintaining such a program would be a huge
> amount of effort/work. So I doubt that it will happen on LO's watch &
> think it possible only with the backing of a major ($$$) corporation
> such as IBM or similar.


I have the same feeling that there are millions of users of older MS Office
versions but I can't find any statistics to support this...

Actually it might be easier to simply send the ODT file and recommend users
to get Softmaker's free viewer (http://www.officeviewers.com/) which
supports doc, docx and odt (among others) and is just a 4Mb download.
Unfortunately to open a spreadsheet it would require an extra 4Mb and it
would support xls and xlsx but curiously not ods...

IBM already as a OpenOffice based free office suite named IBM Lotus Symphony
(which curiously has worse support for Lotus files than LibreOffice :lol:)

It would be fantastic if these two projects could co-operate (hint to TDF SC
members ;) )


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