I heard from many people that one of the most silly problem you can have by using OpenOffice is that you cannot open excel files containing macros...Yesterday it happened to me exactly the opposite:
I got a file written with Microsoft Excel, containing some very simple macros.
I firstly try to open with Excel...but no why, the macro was making problem...than I tried with OpenOffice and the document was immediately opened
Now it would be nice to know why by using the native software I got problems (and in the end it didn't work), while by using Open Office (an open source free version of Microsoft Office) I didn't have any trouble.
The same happened to me with the some new .pptx files...
I can easily open them in OpenOffice, while I cannot open with the previous version of Microsoft Office...
As you can see, open source software
- is always performing better...no matter the topic and the problem...
- is much more reliable
and do you know why?
The reasons is simple, the are millions of persons who can have access to the original source code and they are all willing to improve it...nobody does it for money..
everybody contributes...and the software is improved...
Microsoft instead doesn't have any push to improve his licensed software just because of its not deserved monopoly on the software industry...
Just take the example of Vista....
If a company in any other field had put on the market some low quality product as Windows Vista is, that company would have had to close its activities immediately...
Can you imagine that whenever you buy a PC with Vista you can ask for an officially downgrade...
it is like if Apple produce a new IPhone and instead of buying that one, you ask for the previous model..
Instead what happend?
Microsoft wasn't hurt by Vista disaster at all, just because you are forced to buy it....no matter you want it or not....if you buy any notebook, you must buy it
yours sincerely
Antonio
