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 Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 1:53 pm Post subject: Microsoft struggles to deliver Office 2007 converters |
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Microsoft has admitted it's still struggling to make Office 2007 compatible with Macs, three months after the official launch of the software.
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Has this story been delibrately set up for some MS bashing? |
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Amnesia10
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| JStairmand wrote: | | Has this story been delibrately set up for some MS bashing? |
Maybe but can't we take advantage and bash it anyway? 
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ProfessorF
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Personally I think this smacks of the Big M putting another kerbstone in the path of people who might like to roll out OS X.
'Of course, we'd love to let you have a Mac, it's just that as we've spent a truck load of cash on new PC's with Vista and Office 07, it's just, y'know...'
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fluteflute
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| JStairmand wrote: | | Has this story been delibrately set up for some MS bashing? |
It seems to me that is has. They fail to mention in the first paragraph Microsoft has actually released something!
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equityguru
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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it doesnt even work with XP !
it wipes out the English Spellcheck replacing it with a French one in Outlook Express. - Microsoft have no plans to fix the problem either. |
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Amnesia10
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| equityguru wrote: | it doesnt even work with XP !
it wipes out the English Spellcheck replacing it with a French one in Outlook Express. - Microsoft have no plans to fix the problem either. |
Thats M$ for you.
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Now children, has Uncle Bill ever let us down before? Children?... Children, come away from that Mac, it's filthy   |
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Any chance fluteflute could change that long url to a clicky? Or at least www.tinyurl.com it.
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Amnesia10
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| pcernie wrote: | | Now children, has Uncle Bill ever let us down before? Children?... Children, come away from that Mac, it's filthy |
Now children put that iPod down you know that it is the spawn of the devil. Here listen to your Zune.
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fluteflute
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| shawpower wrote: | | Any chance fluteflute could change that long url to a clicky? Or at least www.tinyurl.com it. |
Your wish is my command.  |
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| fluteflute wrote: | | shawpower wrote: | | Any chance fluteflute could change that long url to a clicky? Or at least www.tinyurl.com it. |
Your wish is my command. |
Many thanks. I'd have done it for you, but I'm not a mod in the Comments forum.
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If Open Office can release an open document XML format that works on Linux, PC and Macs, why is it that M$ with thousands more developers cannot?
This shows why the Microsoft format should not be adopted as an International Standard, because it effectively allows them to leverage their monopoly power in support of one of their other products. A completely open system would mean if they couldn't write the code, someone else would release it for them, benefitting all users of all OSs.
Microsoft's position smacks of "if we can't do it, we won't let anyone else do it either, so there!".
God, they can be childish....
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| SwissMac wrote: | | If Open Office can release an open document XML format that works on Linux, PC and Macs, why is it that M$ with thousands more developers cannot? |
Well Open Office was developed by thousands of developers, just that they were doing it for free, most likely in their spare time. You are right that it does not say much for Microsoft programmers.
| SwissMac wrote: | This shows why the Microsoft format should not be adopted as an International Standard, because it effectively allows them to leverage their monopoly power in support of one of their other products.
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Also how are we to know that they will not altered their version to make Open Office imports harder.
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