Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Jan 2009 08:45 UTC, submitted by stonyandcher
Yesterday we ran a story on how educational institutions defaulting to Microsoft Office may stifle some people who do not own a copy of Office or Windows. A Forrester Research report now states the bloody obvious by claiming that organisations stick with Microsoft Word not out of necessity, but out of habit.
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2008-10-23
If you have legacy documents from earlier versions of MS word, chances are that the format is no more supported by the newer versions of MS Office. In that case, OpenOffice may handle the documents better than MS office itself, because different versions of MS Office are not compatible with each other. I don't buy this argument about compatibility. Closed proprietary format certainly isn't a long term solution for compatibility. Your documents will be effectively unreadable in 5 or 6 years.
Edited 2009-01-16 15:08 UTC