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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:A spalling chackar by Dot.Com.CEO · · Score: -1, Troll
    Instead of giving you a +1 funny, the idiot mods give you an offtopic. Apparently you were too cynic in causterising the submitter's (and editor's) apparent inability to spell. So, I'll be a bit less cynic:

    IT'S SPELLED "COMPATIBLE", NOT "COMPATABLE".

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  2. Re:It's been said before.. by advocate_one · · Score: -1, Troll
    As soon as 'the boss' is unable to open your budget report written in OpenOffice, guess what he'll demand from you

    and when the rest of the office gets whacked by some new macrovirus while you carry on working without any trouble???
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  3. 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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