As a Windows Phone user I think this is a terrible idea. Didn't BlackBerry already try this? Did it help them? I don't think so. It is a slippery slope that only leads to irrelevance.
The beauty of Windows Phone is that it is not like Android and iOS. Well written WP apps, which follow the Metro (I know they don't call it that anymore) design philosophy integrate beautifully into the environment. Slapping Android apps, which follow very different conventions would diminish the user experience.
I don't think this is the case. I installed Fedora Core 4 Test 2 and it came with the GNU free version of Java. Open Office comes installed with it and works great without ever having downloaded the Sun JVM.
Why should Microsoft have the right to lock up my documents and not tell me how to get my document complete with formatting from their program?
They don't "lock up" your data. You're perfectly free to open it and modify it using the application you purchased.
I can't believe someone can be this naive. But in case you are, they provide a "Save As" feature where you can save it in an open format if you want.
So calm down. This isn't an Apple conspiracy, or the end of OpenOffice for Mac OS X. OpenOffice will continue, in X11 form AND in the likes of things such as NeoOffice. If anyone is to blame for the official OpenOffice.org Aqua port going by the wayside, frankly, it's a lot closer to Sun than anyone else.
Right, so now it's Sun's fault for not using their infinite engineering resources to port OO to a proprierary API with less than 5% of the target user's marketshare.
If anyone is to blame, I would say it is Apple. OO is an open source project. Apple's could support the project and provide engineering resources if they really cared. Why should it be Sun's responsibility to support every niche OS out there?
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As a Windows Phone user I think this is a terrible idea. Didn't BlackBerry already try this? Did it help them? I don't think so. It is a slippery slope that only leads to irrelevance.
The beauty of Windows Phone is that it is not like Android and iOS. Well written WP apps, which follow the Metro (I know they don't call it that anymore) design philosophy integrate beautifully into the environment. Slapping Android apps, which follow very different conventions would diminish the user experience.
I don't think this is the case. I installed Fedora Core 4 Test 2 and it came with the GNU free version of Java. Open Office comes installed with it and works great without ever having downloaded the Sun JVM.
Why should Microsoft have the right to lock up my documents and not tell me how to get my document complete with formatting from their program? They don't "lock up" your data. You're perfectly free to open it and modify it using the application you purchased. I can't believe someone can be this naive. But in case you are, they provide a "Save As" feature where you can save it in an open format if you want.
Actually non-negative integers since 0 is allowed.
Sorry, I'm a mathematician...
Right, so now it's Sun's fault for not using their infinite engineering resources to port OO to a proprierary API with less than 5% of the target user's marketshare.
If anyone is to blame, I would say it is Apple. OO is an open source project. Apple's could support the project and provide engineering resources if they really cared. Why should it be Sun's responsibility to support every niche OS out there?