Fully compatible with Microsoft Office?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:04, Rodrigo López Dato <rlopezdato at gmail.com> wrote:
> For opening the occasional Word document it's great, but it has
> nowhere near 100% compatibility to replace MSO in a production
> environment, at least not one that deals with external MSO documents.
> Of course, we would all be better off with open formats everywhere
> (not necessarily ODF) but that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
>
> So, what does this has to do with technical Ubuntu discussion? :)
>

A user installed Ubuntu because the site advertises 100%
compatibility. When it didn't work, a colleague of his sent him to me.
So I have to explain that Canonical lied on the website. How do you
think that makes the rest of Canonical's claims about Ubuntu look?

In the end I reinstalled Windows 7, MS Office and a few other
applications on his computer. I also installed Open Office and Firefox
and taught him how to use them superficially. The user is very
interested in moving to Linux (not specifically Ubuntu) and he now
knows that he will need to remove his dependency on MSO in order to
switch.


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