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MS vs. Open Source Office Suite Compatibility

Posted by timothy on from the file-formats-are-what-matter dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Though Microsoft may soon be blocking Office suite compatability with open source productivity tools, in the mean time Hal Varian (of Berkeley) has conducted the Microsoft Office-Linux Interoperability Experiment which shows a surprising amount of interoperability. Hey, another reason NOT to upgrade to the new version!"

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  1. Re:important to note by gobbo · · Score: 0, Troll

    "(There are free PDF makers that are almost-but-not-quite as good as Acrobat.)"

    [smug posturing=egregious]
    I have one of those. Well, it's nearly free, more like a bonus component. It's called Mac OS X. But even then Word X gets befuddled sometimes.
    [/smug]

    [Aside:] Responsible format citizens send basic documents in .rtf (for now). For everything else there's page layout software.

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    Damn those pesky terrorists