The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micro$oft go bankrupt?

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu) wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 17:30, Amit Kumar wrote:
>
>   
>> No linux application can be thought of an competitive with MS Office
>> 2007,
>>     
>
> I would like to report that my Standard Operating Practice for repairing
> corrupted MS Office documents is to open them with OpenOffice 3.0 and
> saving them back to their original MS Office format under a different
> name.
>   
+1

May I add that I had Open Office installed for those cases where the 
saved document cannot be opened again by the very instance of Word that 
saved.

But good luck getting the whole company to switch unless you are the CTO 
(and even then, good luck)