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Article #621970Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: J. Clarke
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 01:02
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 01:02
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 17:17:33 -0700, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: >John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: >> In article <fk45t5...@mid.individual.net>, >> Huge <use...@huge.org.uk> wrote: >>>> Microsoft are not idiots. If they thought there was a market for >>>> Office on linux they would port it to linux. >>> >>> No need. I interoperated with an office full of MS weenies for years >>> using LibreOffice and no-one ever noticed. >> >> You were lucky. I have done a lot of work that involves sending Word >> docs back and forth and Libreoffice is hopeless if the docs use anything >> beyond the simplest formatting features. >> >> I wish Libre worked better, but it doesn't. >> > >I must stick to simple, because I've never noticed any inconsistencies, and >I've moved various documents back and forth a few times. Some companies got >themselves into trouble because they tried to use a word processor or a >spreadsheet as a general-purpose programming language, but that doing that >kind of thing is like going around wearing a big "kick me" sign. The word processor is not used as a "general purpose programming language". The embedded scripting language that is common to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook is used as a scripting language, as was intended.
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