[nzlug] MS Word in School Macs

[David Young]

Quite right. I've been using NeoOffice for at least 6 months, for business /
office work, and have yet to even encounter a bug, let alone be harassed by
one :) - I constantly exchange documents with my staff on Windows
OpenOffice, and it works seamlessly.

D

On 6/2/07, Phillip Hutchings <phillip.hutchings at sitharus.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/2/07, Simon <corwin at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> > Anyone seen this.
> > http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10442388
> >
> > Open Source is mentioned as an undesirable alternative to MS Word....
> > but I've never heard of Neo Office.
>
> NeoOffice is a Java-based OS X front end for the C++ OpenOffice code.
> Don't ask me how it works, seems like magic to me. There are bugs, but
> for your average school I don't think they'd be that major, and it's
> getting better all the time.
>
>