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Re: [LUG] MS Giving stuff away.

 

--- On Thu, 19/5/11, Gibbs <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Gibbs <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    
  On 19/05/11 11:01, JOHN DAVEY wrote:
    
      I got told off for installing Open Office. She was a bit vauge about it 
though, 
aparently the committee wouldn't like it.
Jon Davey.

    
    You could try and justify it
        by saying its free (£0), better, portable, cross-platform, more
        accessible (available online for free) and more compatible.


Also: for safety you should have a minimum of two of each of:
Browsers:  How do you correct if IE in Windows goes wrong? Need another to get to 
internet to reload files 
Suggest IE, Firefox, 
For office applications: Need a back to read files if MS Office goes wrong thus use 
OpenOfffice.org or LibreOffice

Also OO.o or LO can be set to alwasy save in MS Doc format (suggest 97/2003) so 
others can read your files if sent to them.


regards
Eion MacDonald

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