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Comment Apparently no one knows what this means (Score 1) 235

I read through a far portion of the posts here and I have to say I'm disappointed. It's quite clear that no one here has ever gone deep into either MS office or StarOffice. Using MS Office in a global enterprise fashion is nearly impossible. I'm a Office Engineer for a Fortune 500 company that makes its money on R&D. That means documents are the life blood of the company. Getting into the nitty gritty with MS Word and it'll nearly drive you insane. MS had a philosophy of using "styles" in its documents but didn't stick to it consistantly making it nearly impossible to control some aspects of formatting. As 3rd support I'm often getting the "seriously fucked" documents to repair. Ever hear of Style Corruption? Neither has Microsoft. It's a problem I have to fix everyday but MS won't admit it exists. Why? It's a basic flaw in the design of the product. To admit something like Style Corruption can happen means that MS Word is a piece of crap from line 1 of the code. The reason I say this is because I have been seriosuly looking at StarOffice as a alternative product to use. Any Office Engineer will agree with me, MS Office is not a viable product for global enterprise use. It's the defacto standard because it's what everyone else uses. If StarOffice goes opensource then I can use it and provide a solution that will work for this company. If I run into a problem like Style Corruption I can try and work with the community to fix it. I'm sick of Microsoft plugging it's ears and screaming "NA NA NA NA NA" when I try to explain what is Style Corruption. For all those saying StarOffice is bloated and slow, shit man, at least with an opensource version you can make it work! I'll take slow and bloated anyday over impossible to make it work.

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