Jul 4, 2010

Sometimes I Just Hate M$


I wanted to e-mail the essay I typed using OpenOffice 3.2 under Ubuntu to an English teacher who helped me marking my essays, so I reboot into Windows to use Office 2007(it's a genuine copy) to make sure that the typesetting is OK. I found out that I couldn't open the .odt files, but I remembered I used to do that before I had done a fresh install of Vista and Ubuntu 10.04 recently. So I went to the Office on-line information center for some documents, it turned out that I need to install an update to get Office to open .odt files, when I was going through the document,
it said " you might also see formatting differences when you open an OpenDocument file in Word 2007. This is because of the different features that the file formats support."
Come On! You said that your software doesn't fully support an "open standard" for electronic documents!! You can't or you won't?? You're willing to sacrifice the user experience of using .odt files so that no one will ever want to try other office software, cause they looks sucks in Office.

Although it's sometimes the same when you use OpenOffice to open a .doc or .docx file, but that's because Office has always been(and probably will always be) a proprietary software, so no one can blame Sun for not doing their job.
Windows on the other hand, should be ashamed of their effort to drain every penny out of customer's pocket rather than spending time to improve the quality of some of its products.

An memorial to Sun

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