[hblug] The docx problem

[Brett Wilkins]

Perhaps part of the problem is that in some systems (ie Windows) viewing
extensions is turned off? this way the user only sees "OpenOffice.org
Document" or whatever for the document type.

Just my $0.02

Cheers,

Brett

> How about "most non-technical users".
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>
>
> I know plenty of OpenOffice users who wouldn't know what an .odt file was
> if
> there was a free beer riding on it.
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> 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:
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>
>
> 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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