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Originally Posted by Max
But try to run e.g. some Office97 thing on Vista ! 
This is because MS don't wanna good systems and let them stay out for more years or recycle software... but wanna create slaves... who buy software and OS each 2-3 years... buy last office, buy their software and forget about user needs! It's business. |
That's very true!
Sometimes people complain that OpenOffice is not fully compatible with Microsoft Office, but it's usually just a case of adjusting the default formatting. Of course there are some problems with macros in the spreadsheet applications because the MS stuff is based on Visual Basic.
But then the MS office suites are not compatible with each other either. Have you ever tried exchanging data between MS Office and MS Works? And of course there's the new docx word processing format from MS. It is claimed that only MS applications can read this format! How wrong!
OpenOffice can read docx with no problems at all.