Re: OT: OpenOffice not 100% compatible?

On Tue, 09 May 2006 01:52:20 GMT, Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hello Budgie,


Where I worked a while back, they upgraded the entire outfit to WinWord2000. I
often did drawings in '6 and '97. I did one set of drawings in '2000 at work
and emailed them home to do more work with them, only to find they were
"scrambled" when I looked at them in '97.


Go to Tools -> Options -> Compatibility and switch everything possible
to '97 compatibility.


Didn't solve the problem :-((


I suspect MicroShaft's main problem is thinking that new features are what
distinguishes their product from any competition, or simply the need to add
features because they want to put a later label on the product. Backward
compatibility isn't on their radar.


Their marketeers do not seem to understand how much business that is
costing them. I do not upgrade anything unless I absolutely have to.
Golden rule of the house, period. But I know many who liked some new
features yet shied away from an upgrade because of all the issues they
fear that would cause. Like potentially not being able to edit older
stuff. Every one of those cases was a lost sales opportunity for
Microsoft. IMHO that is not a very smart business philosophy.

I suspect, as others have stated, that they figure the commercial vs soho
revenue comparison is so lop-sided that they ONLY focus on one sector - the one
where bells and whistles sell the software.

I am very much aligned to your attitude - upgrade only when necessary. Because
I run quite an amount of legacy software (DOS and stuff requiring I/O port
access without the NT-HAL hassles) I still run 98SE. The decision to upgrade
Office from 4.3 to '97 was really forced by "compatibility" issues.
.