Re: OT: OpenOffice not 100% compatible?

OpenOffice[...]Word
Joerg

compare the relative ages of the packages from the 2 vendors.
JeffM

So, newer means not-so-good?

Adding "features" increases the odds
that backwards-compatibility will be broken as new bugs are introduced.
With M$, historically, the odds increase even more...
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I have three versions of Word.
The 15 year old one is the most stable :-)

....as your empirical results support.
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How many tries did it take to get things "correct" in M$ Office? [2]

One. (The installation)

I should have said "How many tries did it take M$..."
--and as I did say, they're still working on that.
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as long as [OOo] is completely Java based

OpenOffice.org's dependence on the Java Runtime Environment
has been grossly overstated:
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:4Wc6WaUyOmQJ:61.211.239.14/~i-mode/px/x.cgi?MoN=g%26UoN=software.newsforge.com%252Farticle.pl%253Fsid%253D05%252F03%252F22%252F204244+2.0-requires-a-JRE-for+In-addition+zz-zz+As-of-version-1.1.4-*-*-*-*-*-*-*+basic-office-functionality-continues-to-be-unaffected
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[3] As Nico's post suggests, combining *content* with *formatting*
in a proprietary binary protocol is a recipe for disaster.

Then programs should not let people do that or at least beep a warning.

Agreed--but tarring third parties with that brush
when they're just trying to support what alrerady exists
and when it was M$ that established the baseline (and
continues to make it difficult for others to make compatible products
--through closed standards, a moving target, and broken code)
seems unfair to OOo and those others.
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[5] Which everyone in the know realizes
is only a "standard" IF YOU SPECIFY A VERSION NUMBER.

I am using Works for my business books
and the reason is simple:
I can still read files that I created in 1889 with any version.

Wow. You're older than I thought. ;-)
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they began shipping Works bundled with Word
and sure enough that WP reliability ended for me.

They improved it to death.
Microsoft: Failure is not an option--it comes bundled. 8-)
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nospam has made a point that I meant to include:
If the M$ Office stub is loaded into memory at boot (the default),
Office gets an advantage re: load times.
OOo looks better when the playing field has been properly leveled.

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