microsoft.com — Microsoft defines StarOffice/OpenOffice to have "substantially the same features and functionality" as MS Office. The same goes for Wine, OpenXchange and Mono and their MS counterparts. So who wants to argue OSS to be inferior if even Microsoft can't see any significant difference?
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bnolsenJul 23, 2007
Why haven't you switched over to using something like Lyx?Real power tools, especially for academic documents.
natenovsJul 23, 2007
let me paraphrase emptyother: "the way you want to do something is wrong and you suck. in order to use free software, you must do things exactly like i do."you're retarded.
cquinndJul 23, 2007
Then click on the Office Button, go to Word Options, and in the Save section you can customize what format Word 2007 will save to by default.
gildudeJul 23, 2007
I don't have time to read a 6,000 page spec for OOXML or even the smaller one for ODF. However, it has been stated by Microsoft that they needed a format that could support more features than ODF supports (apparently the claim is that if they used ODF they would have to drop some of the features of Office since they can't map them to ODF standards). This does make a certain amount of sense since Open Office doesn't HAVE as many features as Office 2007. Now, they may have been able to hack them info ODF somehow, but that would still have screwed up the interop as opening the file in Open Office would have shown something different than opening them in Office 2007. It's better that they come up with a competing format that does support their features rather than jacking with ODF and crapping it up like they did with Kerberos when they added their SID support to it.
stalefriesJul 23, 2007
Actually, the default margins are .79 inches. If you do a simple calculation (or google it), you'll find that .79 inches is equal to 2 centimeters.
haromtJul 24, 2007
I use Gmail :)
iamdexterAug 20, 2007
Open office is just a bunch of crap. It can never stand along MS Office.<a class="user" href="http://www.clarksshoes.us">http://www.clarksshoes.us</a>
achilleasgrOct 26, 2007
wtf? you suck
achilleasgrOct 26, 2007
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