On 10/09/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Smedley</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:smedley358@btinternet.com">smedley358@btinternet.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
While it would be good for them to have OpenOffice.org, they can<br>open ODF docs from Microsoft Office by installing Sun&#39;s plug-in:<br><a href="http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/">http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/
</a></blockquote><div><br>That sounds pretty good, most schools would be more willing to install sun stuff over OSS although ideally we&#39;d want cross compatibility rather than having to install some &#39;bridging&#39; software.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That applies to all upgrades of course - they will find more than<br>a few differences were they to change to Office 2007
</blockquote><div><br>Aaaarrgghh Don&#39;t. I thought I would be a smart arse and install 2007 at work and at home. Its a pile of dog doo doo. everything is not where you&#39;d expect it, it takes 5 or 10 mins to find the feature you&#39;re after, oh and if you&#39;re sending any docs as attachments make sure you&#39;ve saved them in 2003 format.
<br><br>You would have thought that Mr Gates would have twigged by now that he should at least make &#39;Read-ability&#39; backwards compatible. <br></div><br></div>-- <br>Regards<br><br>Dick Turpin<br><br>Arch Linux is an independent i686-optimized community distribution for intermediate and advanced Linux users. Utilising a Rolling Release System packages are regularly updated and an ISO release is just a snapshot to the stable packages at that time. So there&#39;s no need for a fresh install the command 'pacman –Syu' upgrades the whole system.