Re: [LUG] FOSS in schools (Was: Free ipad to every student????)

[Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 Dec, 2010, at 7:35 pm, Eion MacDonald wrote:

> On 24/12/10 19:08, Philip Hudson wrote:
> > I'm not the user in question, but I guess he uses Calc's
> > save-as-Excel-format, or perhaps some delimited-text format.

<snip>

> QuickBooks can only "export to an actual MS Excel program" installed  
> on
> same machine. It cannot 'save' an MS Excel of other spreadsheet   
> format
> file, it can only "open MS Excel" ( it calls MS Excel from QB internal
> command , not a 'save to MS Excel' format command. ) and then import  
> the
> sheet and then you save from Excel.

I see, I hadn't appreciated that that was the situation. He must have  
MSOffice installed as well as QB, I guess -- only to be expected.

So, Microsoft has arranged for QuickBooks not to do ordinary, basic  
interoperability stuff. What a vicious anti-competitive ploy. I wonder  
if Neelie Kroes is onto it? (I'm copying this to her secretariat)

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Phil Hudson                      PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63



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