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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: inane on 6 March 2006, 10:45

Title: M$ Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind
Post by: inane on 6 March 2006, 10:45
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/06/0320253&from=rss (http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/06/0320253&from=rss)

HOLY SHITE!!! You mean that with the latest version of MSOffice I don't even have to copy/paste into thunderbird?! I can just use thier email client right from my Word window :eek:!!! Where do I sign up?!:p
Title: Re: M$ Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind
Post by: Pathos on 6 March 2006, 10:52
slashdot has a good anti-MS flame going on if anyones interested.

but I do miss the MS animated character... :P I drove my lecturer crazy every time he left a slideshow.
Title: Re: M$ Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind
Post by: inane on 6 March 2006, 11:08
Slashdot ALWAYS has a good anti-MS flame going... I think it'd be better to label it a bushfire...
Title: Re: M$ Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind
Post by: Refalm on 6 March 2006, 11:27
The animated character is still there in Office 2003. It's fun to activate it on workstations when a user is leaving to get coffee :D
Title: Re: M$ Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 6 March 2006, 20:37
Funny how M$ reverses the truth :D

But actually it's a very useful strategy for the slow of mind ... after all, how can you contradict someone by saying:

Bob ~ "M$ Office is 10 years behind OpenOffice"
Bill ~ "No, OpenOffice is 10 years behind M$ Office"
Bob ~ "You're worng"
Bill ~ "No, you're wrong"
......

The only way to solve this dispute is get to the facts, assuming the opposing party understands them ... and/or doesn't choke on their own drool while pondering them.
Title: Re: M$ Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind
Post by: noob on 6 March 2006, 23:25
Maybe open source developers don't want to force people into things. I use OO and firefox, I use Thunderbird, but I don't have to.
Title: Re: M$ Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind
Post by: Lead Head on 6 March 2006, 23:36
Quote from: noob
Maybe open source developers don't want to force people into things. I use OO and firefox, I use Thunderbird, but I don't have to.

Same here
Title: Re: M$ Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind
Post by: Orethrius on 7 March 2006, 03:23
Maybe Microsoft thinks that if they put their fingers in their ears, and scream "I KNOW YOU ARE, BUT WHAT AM I?" the problem will just go away.
Title: Re: M$ Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind
Post by: inane on 7 March 2006, 10:09
Quote from: Orethrius
Maybe Microsoft thinks that if they put their fingers in their ears, and scream "I KNOW YOU ARE, BUT WHAT AM I?" the problem will just go away.
It's funny how in Microsoft's own R&D department they have more machines running Linux than Windows yet they refuse to acknowledge the strides that OSS has made. Hell their lead researcher is an old Redhat sellout. :thumbup: