-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Is MS sabotaging Open Office now?
- From: LARRY SOUTHERLAND <larrysoutherland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:49:50 -0700
Does everyone know about the "The Job's not done until Wordperfect won't run"
story from the Windows 3.x days? Supposedly, Ziff-Davis showed up unannounced
at the Redmond campus and there was a dot-matrix printer printed banner with
that message mentioned above was hanging from the wall in the Windows 3.x
programming department. You may also be aware that M$ settled a lawsuit by
Digital Research that alleged that M$ was originally telling people that
Windows 3.x would not load on DR-DOS; only on MS-DOS. Finally M$ successfully
coded Windows 3.x so that Windows actually would not load on anything but
MS-DOS. I also read that M$ settled with Novell over similar tactics that M$
used to take over the wordprocessing/office market. In each case, M$ settled
for an undisclosed amount north of $1 billion each time while, of course,
admitting no wrongdoing..
On Friday, October 24, 2014 7:36 AM, Dan Chisolm <d0ct0rdan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Consider using LibreOffice
<http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/. I've been using it
for a couple of years; no problem opening any MS files.
~ Dan
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 00:07:58 -0400
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Is MS sabotaging Open Office now?
> From: chazzlee@xxxxxxxxx
> To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> All along I could open docx files using Open Office Writer, as my MS Word97
> prog didn't recognize them... But I guess I made the damn fool mistake of
> downloading some recent MS WinXP updates w/o checking out each one
> individually to see what MS was up to?
> Because ever since that last WinXP update, Open Office crashes every time I
> try to open a docx file! Sent an error report to Open Office but have not
> heard anything back from them......
> Greywoulf
>
>
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