23 Nov
2011
23 Nov
'11
4:06 a.m.
I do think people care a lot about it! As a student I
am
required to submit my papers as a microsoft document. Mr
Jones, who works in an office is required to turn in a excel
sheet of business transaction, he needs MS compatibility.
his wife Sue Jones, writes down her cooking recipes to email
to her sister-in-law, she needs MS Compatibility. Bobby
Jones, their loving son, has to submit power point projects
and essays to his high school. He needs MS Compatibility.
Okay so the Jones family is a hurtin' bunch. :D
Point taken. Let's agree we need reasonable compatibility but let's focus on
personal usage rather than enterprise usage.
Enterprise or not, you need MS Compat any time that
you
step out of the linux world, so unless the entire network of
people around you are using ODT, then you'll need to use
DOC.
Well, as I said, I am required to maintain full compatibility. I don't fight
windmills. I use the required apps natively in a virtual machine. I have no illusions
about using non Windows apps to put my beans on the table. :) I think anybody who needs
100% compatibility needs to be realistic.
With that said, often I open MS docs in LO, but only to browse. I don't trust any
alleged compatibility claims to acutally change such documents. If I am asked to modify an
MS doc then I start my virtual machine.
Jeepers creepers, Calvin, just the other day you were
screaming to use markup languages for documentation... :D
I will try and be more reserved. Take everything I say with
a grain of salt. I do like you quite a lot Darrell, you are
an asset to the team!
Likewise. Wrangling with you young whipper snappers keeps my mind sharper than I might
otherwise be. :)
Darrell