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OpenOffice Tops 21% Market Share In Germany

Posted by kdawson on from the camel's-head-and-neck dept.

hweimer writes "A novel study analyzes the installed base of various office packages among German users. (Here is the original study report in German and a Google translation.) While Microsoft Office comes out top (72%), open source rival OpenOffice is already installed on 21.5% of all PCs and growing. The authors use a clever method to determine the installed office suites of millions of web users: they look for the availability of characteristic fonts being shipped with the various suites. What surprised me the most is that they found hardly any difference in the numbers for home and business users."

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  1. Re:Getting through the university barrier in the U by iammani · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why not submit them as PDFs? They can open it in any platform and it will appear as I intended. Besides it would make you look cool.

    Its working fine for me at my university.

  2. Re:Getting through the university barrier in the U by esmrg · · Score: 5, Informative

    plagarism checker databases like turnitin lack the ability to parse anything but word files

    I didn't believe this statement so I looked it up.
    According to their student guide at http://www.turnitin.com/resources/documentation/turnitin/training/en_us/qs_student_en_us.pdf

    At the top of page 2:
    " We accept submissions in these formats: MS Word, WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, PostScript, HTML, and plain text (.txt)"

    So while I think plagiarism checkers are kind of a waste of resources, your statement is still false.