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Comment from: brad mcpherson [Visitor] Email
Can't see it happening and don't want it to. I'm a Mac user and no special Microsoft fan but the Office suite is excellent. The 2007 is terrific and smashes any other system. Open office has been around for ages and is free but nobody uses it. The advantage of MS Office is that you can go from one business to the next and easily slot into the environment wth Outlook, Word and Excel. There's no compelling reason to change. Not even cost or Open Office would be the standard.
26/11/07 @ 15:11
Comment from: Andy Haynes [Visitor] Email
@brad mcpherson
My Friend, at the risk of starting some kind of flame war (and with the greatest respect) I don't think you are in possession of all the facts. Many government bodies are moving away from MS formats to ODF (open document format) because it has been realised that storing documents in a proprietary format may cause compatibility problems in the future (British library had many early MS Word documents that couldn't be read by the latest versions of MS word). If the governments and large corporates start standardising on open formats then the rest of the world will follow. Open Office (or IBM Lotus Symphony) is almost indistinguishable in features from MS Office and saves files in a proper standard.
05/02/08 @ 09:03

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