[rescue] Wooohhhooo XP -> 0 to BSOD in 12min23sec

[Steve Sandau]

For my part, I don't really use any advanced features of MS Office or
Star Office. The test of opening MS files in Star is only useful because
corporate idiots that can't type without MS Word email me Word
documents. They also insist that small charts (like 4x4 matrices) have
to be in Excel instead of a test file. Stupid. But because people I work
with are crippled and rely on Office products, I need to maintain some
type of compatibility. So I use StarOffice 6 beta on a Linux box to read
MS docs in email or on our Netware server...

(Personally, I don't like to use either office like many other people
don't. I use vi and compose my emails in plain text. I rarely use
spreadsheets, use an SQL database when I need a database, and find
PowerPoint to be a complete waste of disk space.)

Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:53:11PM -0700, Dunbar, Brian wrote:
> > You're right.  My (business manager) boss has told me the minute StarOffice
> > can promise the same functionality as Ms Office we'll switch over.  I'm
> > working on it.  So far I haven't opened an excel spreadsheet or word doc
> > that's been made in Office 2000 that I can't launch in StarOffice 6.....
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to start from the position of actually figuring out
> what parts of Office2k you use, instead of just seeing if files
> open?  Just because every file opens doesn't mean that StarOffice does
> everything decently, and like wise, if it Star Office did everything
> decently, except open an occasional file, the a conversion server could be
> setup for use.
> 
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> Joshua D. Boyd
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