Re: [LUG] flyer

[Dave Foxcroft <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/06/2011 17:48, Paul Sutton wrote:
> On 26/06/11 17:43, Dave Foxcroft wrote:
> > On 25/06/2011 11:57, Paul Sutton wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > The following is on the novatech website
> > >
> > > "Office 2010 Starter comes Pre Installed with every PC purchased 
> > > With an
> > > Operating System. Microsoft Office Starter: reduced-functionality Word
> > > and Excel only, with advertising. No PowerPoint or Outlook."
> > >
> > > Good reason to use or promote Open office,
> > >
> > > Paul
> > Check out this little beauty....
> >
> > *http://tinyurl.com/2czek3y
> >
> > *I don't wish to direct quote from the site ( for obvious reasons) 
> > but look for the section = 'Office Starter 2010 Marketing 
> > Restrictions and Best Practices' at the bottom....a real corker!
> >
> > Check out the rest of the site to see what OEM's have to put up with.
> >
> > Dave
> just goes to show we need to try and reverse this trend,   ms have 
> just made it far more difficult to do so.
>
>
> paul
I installed OpenOffice at one of the schools I provide support for (I 
install OpenOffice/Libre Office at every school I support along with 
several other open source apps) - this particular school then requested 
that I install the latest verion of MS Office (2010 Pro Plus) as 'people 
cannot get along with it (OpenOffice)'.  Problems tend to mainly be the 
handling of images in documents between the two suites, or rather, the 
lack of it. Simple documents work well between the  two suites but 
insert images etc, sounds etc and then you would think the world had ended!


I blame the likes of MS, Lotus et al for adding the fuctionality of 
adding sounds, images and the like into the word processor....

Dave

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