Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

On 21/07/2011 14:23, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> I am of the opinion that good inter-operability with MSO products 
> makes it easier to attract new users and that poor inter-operability 
> with MSO products makes it more difficult.
I quite agree.  As (I would say) between 90 and 95% of the business 
world uses MSO, there's no incentive to change from MSO if the 
alternatives aren't 100% compatible in terms of formatting, other than 
cost of upgrading and the activities of the BSA and its' companions.
My wife sends me documents written in Office 2003 which sometimes are so 
badly mangled when I open them in OO or LO that I have to open them in 
MSO to see what they should look like. And these are in general not 
complicated documents....Having said that, then there have also been 
instances of formatting incompatibilities between different versions of 
MSO....

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