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OSNews on the LinuxWorld Exhibition Floor

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the places-to-be dept.

Expo writes "OSNews reports on the second day of the LinuxWorld Expo. Highlights of the article is CodeWeaver's CrossOver Photoshop effort and the fact that OpenOffice.org is collaborating with _all_ the other major Linux office suites and word processors towards the creation of a new, open XML-based, file format. NewsForge also has a report."

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  1. Question.... by JoeLinux · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is this the convention that MS got a booth in? If so, how is THAT going? Any bomb threats or anything?

    Joe

  2. Office programs by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Man, maybe they should spend some time actually getting their suites to WORK RIGHT rather than file formats.

    For various reasons, I needed to open an Excel file under Linux yesterday. Now, this Excel file was created with the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module for Perl (which rocks, by the way). Totally documented format. So what happens?

    Gnumeric: Opens it, but formatting all screwed up

    Koffice: Core dumps

    OpenOffice: Core dumps

    This was NOT a complex spreadsheet. This was seriously pitiful. I hadn't tried the Linux office suites in a while, but this does not give me more motivation to try again.

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    Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.