> There are *millions* of users that are still using WinXP and older > versions of MS Office (think schools, libraries, individuals, small > companies, government offices, etc). Granted the ideal situation would > be to have all of them install LO, but we know: 1) that just isn't going > to happen, 2) and even if they do install LO, they are not going to > purge their existing versions of MS Office... it just doesn't work that > way. > > An ODF plugin (like the Sun ODF Plugin) could go a long way in gaining > trust for existing MS Office users, particularly if it does an LO > splashscreen when starting as the Sun one does. However, I also imagine > that creating/converting/maintaining such a program would be a huge > amount of effort/work. So I doubt that it will happen on LO's watch & > think it possible only with the backing of a major ($$$) corporation > such as IBM or similar. >
I have the same feeling that there are millions of users of older MS Office versions but I can't find any statistics to support this... Actually it might be easier to simply send the ODT file and recommend users to get Softmaker's free viewer (http://www.officeviewers.com/) which supports doc, docx and odt (among others) and is just a 4Mb download. Unfortunately to open a spreadsheet it would require an extra 4Mb and it would support xls and xlsx but curiously not ods... IBM already as a OpenOffice based free office suite named IBM Lotus Symphony (which curiously has worse support for Lotus files than LibreOffice :lol:) It would be fantastic if these two projects could co-operate (hint to TDF SC members ;) ) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/OpenOffice-dead-and-burried-tp2951991p2963912.html Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
