[tex-live] OT: Why use Windows

[Frank Küster]

Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Fabrice Popineau wrote:
>
>> And to add another opportunity for a flame thread ... it is even
>> impossible to expect to share document work between MS office and Open
>> Office. Or at least the last attempt I had to do that failed
>> miserably. I have been given a document model for some sort of
>> catalogue. Trying to fill the model under Open Office gave a result
>> which was very different from the MS Office one. 
>>   
> I'm inclined to agree. For daily interchange
> or working documents, the
> compatibility isnt 100% good enough

The same is probably true between different versions of MS Office.  I
have worked too little with current MS Office to be sure, but it was
like this when I still did.  In the old times, my wife used StarOffice
just for the purpose of converting doc files from one version to the
other... 

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)