Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 29th Mar 2008 23:02 UTC
Version 2.4 of the OpenOffice productivity suite was released on Thursday, boasting enhancements to all its core components. Possibly the most significant alteration in the new version of the free suite is in the description of file types. The 'OpenDocument' description has been replaced by 'ODF', which stands for 'OpenDocument Format' and is becoming a well-known acronym thanks to rivalry with Microsoft's controversial OOXML format.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Using Office is NOT stopping them from communicating. Way to exagerate man.
emmm excuse me ?
compatibility between MSOffice versions is top notch and all email attachements always open in all versions, my office 2007 can be safely sent to another company running office 2003 and they can open them without any problems whatsoever.....
and monkeys fly outta my butt.
Member since:2005-07-06
Who cares if nobody can communicate with anyone else?
There are benefits to companies standardising on software in the case of Word and Writer it would be tracking changes, etc but you can easily communicate with other software packages with Office e.g. PDF, RTF, CSV, ODF plugin. So its not really very tough to communicate.
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2005-07-31
What a lode of old cobblers! You have either never been in the PC user support business or you are a Microsoft employee or apologist. How stupid is that to suggest that users in a business be able to select their own software! Why not hardware as well? Who cares if nobody can communicate with anyone else? Contribute by all means but have something sensible to say.
Peter