Comment Re:OpenXML Plug-In Exists for Novell's OO.o (Score 1) 503
[...] who have never worked in IT or had to deal with managers howling at them when a 10 year old document won't open correctly in a new software package.
MS Office doesn't do this very well either.
Some time ago a friend of mine asked me to convert some old Works files to Excel. Excel doesn't have a converter. I lost a few hours looking for a solution, but finally I had to install Works, open the files, export to Excel and then uninstall Works again...
Also, these days, I regularly hear colleagues complain that early adopters to Office 2007 send them documents in the new formats that they can't read. I hardly even notice this, since OOo does open them...
Of course, conversion in OOo isn't perfect. The only point I'm trying to make is that MS Office doesn't do a perfect conversion either, even between its own formats.
