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1. Comment - StarOffice 8 Faces Delays, MS Pressure

   (Aug 15, 2005 - 8:52 AM)

   are you hinting that there are people who are unable to grasp "page preview" might be something similar to "print preview" ? :)
   
   i really don't think these small changes in menu commands are the biggest problem (especially as oo.org/so usually is somewhat better in intuitivity and logical placement, for example, format->page is a lot better than file->page setup) - you can easily find out these things and become efficient within minutes regarding particular function.
   
   bigger problems are change/note management, some spreadsheet functionality etc, though you always have to evaluate situation at hand to determine how appropriate every alternate solution might be.

2. Comment - StarOffice 8 Faces Delays, MS Pressure

   (Aug 15, 2005 - 8:46 AM)

   even though there are legislative means to regulate monopolies, unfortunately there are almost no countries that would enforce these measures to microsoft (even though they are very fast at jumping at players in other industries - in some more than 40% of the market is considered a monopoly, that is, some or all restrictions/regulations apply), as it clearly is a monopoly with a market share >90% (approx, speaking about workstations here).
   
   open formats might be one of these requirements, as other things might be, too.

3. Comment - StarOffice 8 Faces Delays, MS Pressure

   (Aug 15, 2005 - 8:40 AM)

   just a quick note about open formats : xml guarantees nothing. you can easily have binary streams inside of xml format. and that's exactly what microsoft are doing - basically, they just wrap their old format in xml tags - this way they can tout this as a big change towards opennes (though there is none) and at the same time change document format again ;)

4. Comment - Longhorn Gets a Name: Windows Vista

   (Jul 22, 2005 - 9:12 AM)

   same as tele2 is operating here ;)