[KLUG Advocacy] Re: Desktop Penguins -- OpenOffice v. MS Office/Win v. MS Office/Mac

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 00:30, mag00 wrote:
> And there are plenty of options to be had.
> For standard office functions, StarOffice,
> OpenOffice, and Hancom Office all have a lot
> to offer, each with a look and feel similar
> to what most office workers are already
> using.

A local LEAPster here is doing some compatibility testing of OpenOffice
1.0 (641 build series) for Windows and Linux versus MS Office 97 and
2000 for Windows as well as MS Office 98 and 2001 for MacOS 9 and the
new OpenOffice 638c developer release for MacOS X.

The reality?

OpenOffice 1.0 for Windows/Linux renders MS Office 97/2000 for Windows
documents _more_like_the_original_ than MS Office 98/2001 for Mac.  I
hope the Mac version is more of the same because it would _finally_ show
Mac users that Microsoft doesn't care about compatibility with its
users.  He's was trying to download the 638c developer release as of
yesterday.

-- Bryan

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