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Skriven 2006-03-27 19:23:08 av Alan Zisman (1:229/2000)
  Kommentar till text 16895 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: OS wars
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In article <19159$fido.en.os.win95@JamNNTPd>,
 "Charles Scaglione -> TOM WALKER" <cs@nomail.com> wrote:

 CS> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:56:00 -0500, TOM WALKER -> ED VANCE wrote:

 TW>> As I recall after Word 97 MS made some changes to their .doc format that
 TW>> Word 97 and earlier cannot handle.

 CS> And the jury is still out on the native DOC format for Word 2006.  Of
 CS> course now that Vista is delayed until 2007, MS has also announced
 CS> Office 2006 is likewise delayed.

 CS> Have you taken a look at Open Office 2.X?  I don't have the Windows
 CS> version but I do have the Linux version on my machine.  I'm impressed with
 CS> the improvements Sun has made.  It's a bit slow on loading up
 CS> when comparing it to Word 2002 (which I have) but as far as I can
 CS> determine it does everything Word does.  I haven't had a chance to
 CS> evaluate the presentation application (Impress) but will try converting
some
 CS> Power Points over to test.

I'm a big fan of Impress... I've got a bunch of 10-12 year old kids
using it to create presentations to accompany oral reports at my school;
we've set it (along with the rest of OpenOffice.org) to save in
Microsoft Office formats by default, and kids take their work back and
forth from school to home, where they typically work on them using MS
Office.

OpenOffice.ca's Impress is template-challenged compared to PowerPoint,
but that's not necessarily a bad thing, as it moves users away from
canned cliches (and forces them to create their own cliches).

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