On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 17:24 +0100, Simon Phipps wrote: > On May 7, 2006, at 10:57, Ian Lynch wrote: > > > Actually if the filter isn't perfect who > > will get blamed by the average user - more than likely Microsoft ;-) > > According to some of my personal sources, this is the real reason > Microsoft is not interested in producing a filter; they believe it to > be impossible to make a filter which behaves in a commercially > acceptable way and want to be able to wash their hands of all > consequences.
Poor old Microsoft, damned if they do, damned if they don't :-) Mostly public ignorance has worked in their favour. This is an instance where the opposite is true because no matter what they say, if a plug-in appears to integrate with Word, the user is going to blame Word if it goes wrong. -- Ian Lynch www.theINGOTs.org www.opendocumentfellowship.org www.schoolforge.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
