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LiMux Project Has Saved Munich €10m So Far

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  • Cancelled (Score:2, Informative)

    by Nerdfest (867930) writes:

    I thought I heard that the project had been cancelled because of problems in dealing with proprietary file formats (Word, etc). Was that somewhere else?

    • Re:Cancelled (Score:4, Insightful)

      by dadioflex (854298) writes: on Saturday November 24, @12:33AM (#42079597)
      Open Source software programs like Open or Libre Office and Google Docs in particular deal with Microsoft's proprietary data formats better than Microsoft does. Good luck getting your five year old Office installation to read the latest version from MS. Meanwhile Google et al can cope with it fine. Perhaps not perfectly, but fine. The lesson here isn't that using non-MS software gives a less than perfect experience, it's that using MS software encourages a less than perfect experience. 99% of users demand little or nothing more than MS was offering in the 90s, but they're forced to upgrade because otherwise they can't read the files they're getting from that work colleague with the new PC.
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      • Re: (Score:3)

        by sapphire wyvern (1153271) writes:

        Let's see. Five year old MS Office... this is 2012, so that would be Office 2007 (+/- one year), yeah?

        Which uses the same file formats as Office 2010. I haven't heard of any major file format changes for the upcoming Office 2013, (maybe I've missed a story? I don't really pay close attention). And there is a set of free plugins you can download for editing the docx, xlsx etc file types in Office 2003, which is even older.

        Of course, the feature compatibility isn't ever 100% complete between Office versions (

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by chrismcb (983081) writes:
        older versions of office have no problem reading newer versions file formats. Just like newer versions can read older versions just fine.

All this time I've been VIEWING a RUSSIAN MIDGET SODOMIZE a HOUSECAT!

 


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