[hblug] The docx problem

[Tony Hughes]

How about "most non-technical users".

 

I know plenty of OpenOffice users who wouldn't know what an .odt file was if
there was a free beer riding on it.

 

From: hblug-bounces at linux.net.nz [mailto:hblug-bounces at linux.net.nz] On
Behalf Of gordon arnott
Sent: Wednesday, 16 April 2008 1:24 p.m.
To: Hawke's Bay Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [hblug] The docx problem

 

( most MS office users have no idea what "document format" means - they just
hit the save button )

Simple sollution

Just save as   >> earlier version <<

before you hit the <<  SAVE  Button  <<

On 4/16/08, chris morris <racepics at paradise.net.nz> wrote:

t94xr wrote:



And most of the software you purchase on newer computers are trials, trial
Norton products, trial games, perhaps Norton are doing the same with their
security suite.
Its the computer manufactuers who are messing people around. A person buys a
computer, they sell it with Office 2007 and Norton Internet Security 2008
only to find when they have purchased the computer, the software they
thought they were getting with it are only trials and they have to purchase
a new copy of Office 2007 and buy another copy of Norton Internet Security.
All on their new laptop that has Vista Home Basic, with 512MB RAM.

And the PC manufacturers put these trial apps in because:

1 They're getting a kickback from the software company?
2 They're hoping that when the app expires the sucker who bought it will
come back and pay several hundred dollars for more unnecessary software
because he/she has already ( unknowingly ) committed 3 months work to some
proprietary file format?
( most MS office users have no idea what "document format" means - they just
hit the save button )


I've no objection to MS making random file formats - as long as the default
save-as is on their application is something generic ( odf , rtf? )
To dupe unsuspecting customers into saving their work in a proprietary
format - is typical of MS.

The PC manufacturers could always install OO - but then they couldnt hold
people to ransom over expired trial software...


chris




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