Linux Solves Incompatibility btw *Windows* Versions!

[Ubuntist]

A friend, who has a Windows-only laptop, was e-mailed an Excel 2007 file. Unfortunately, she has an older version of Excel and could not open the file. Borrowing my Ubuntu laptop, she was able to open the file in OpenOffice! OpenOffice is more compatible with Microsoft than Microsoft is!!

[Legendary_Bibo]

A friend, who has a Windows-only laptop, was e-mailed an Excel 2007 file. Unfortunately, she has an older version of Excel and could not open the file. Borrowing my Ubuntu laptop, she was able to open the file in OpenOffice! OpenOffice is more compatible with Microsoft than Microsoft is!!
Couldn't she just have gotten Open Office?

[Dustin2128]

I've noticed this phenomena before.. forward compatibility microsoft?

[dtfinch]

There is an Office 2007 compatibility pack they can download and install to open 2007 files in Office 2003, XP, or 2000.

[betrunkenaffe]

There is an Office 2007 compatibility pack they can download and install to open 2007 files in Office 2003, XP, or 2000.

Was just going to say there's a pack for that.

It's almost as if it were being stated that odf version 1 should support everything in version 2...

[Giant Speck]

OpenOffice != Linux

[Frak]

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101686761033.aspx

The latest OpenOffice is newer than the older versions of Excel. It makes sense that OO would support it. It also makes sense why an older version of Excel can't.

[earthpigg]

The latest OpenOffice is newer than the older versions of Excel. It makes sense that OO would support it. It also makes sense why an older version of Excel can't.

yup, gotta force the new version down people's throats. if they want it or not.

[julio_cortez]

yup, gotta force the new version down people's throats. if they want it or not.
If they really had wanted to, they wouldn't have released this (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en).

Anyway, it is absolutely NORMAL that when a "better" or "feature-richer" format is discovered, the old one is dropped.

Also in Java older methods get deprecated and new ones get used instead.
You probably cannot run some recent applets with only java 1.4 anymore, for example.
Oh, right, they're forcing you to BUY the newer version of Ja.. Wait, nevermind. Java is not for sale but it has the same behaviour.

[Johnsie]

Open Office is available for Windows. This thread is fud.

[Legendary_Bibo]

Open Office is available for Windows. This thread is fud.

Which is what I said in the beginning, but everyone looked over it. :lolflag:

[cguy]

And OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 for Windows is not compatible with OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 for Linux.
The layout was screwed up when I opened (in Linux) a doc written in Windows.

[julio_cortez]

Which is what I said in the beginning, but everyone looked over it. :lolflag:
You know, when there's a chance to bash Microsoft even if it's not Microsoft's fault, you know it's gonna happen no matter what.

[ronnielsen1]

I had a friend that couldn't get his resume on disk open and brought it over. It had some errors on it. MS Office and OO neither one was successful getting this open. I ended up getting it open with koffice

[Ubuntist]

Couldn't she just have gotten Open Office?

Afterwards, that occurred to me too. But she's never even heard of Open Office and wouldn't know how or want to install it. She just had the idea of trying it on my laptop--and it worked!