On 8 June 2011 17:12, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbpli...@gmail.com> wrote: <snip> > The major problem (IMHO) in using Linux instead of Windows for ordinary > users, is the difficulty with Office 2007 and 2010 documents, which are > becoming more and more > Email and web browsing is dead easy - it's the incompatibilities of OOXML > format documents with the Office suites available on Linux (Open Office, > Libre Office and all the others) that would seem to be the problem, > particularly as a) prior versions of Office are now being replaced by 2007 > and 2010 in which OOXML is the default and b) it would seem to be the norm > that Windows hides extensions of known file types by default now such that > the average user doesn't even KNOW they are saving and opening OOXML > files...
Problem with OOXML is that it has incompatibilities between versions of MS Office... if MS can't make compatibility with their own products work, other people have very little chance! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
