Jeph Herrin wrote:
> OpenOffice is very good, but I found when collaborating with others,
> especially on Word documents, that the review features didn't translate
> well; that may be improved in recent versions.
Agreed. This is a consequence of working with a closed proprietry
format such as .doc.
The situation may improve with M$'s adoption of the OpenDocument Format
(the native OpenOffice format) or full openness about their native
Office Open XML format.
Personally the revision tracking is a feature I abhor. It makes it
exceptionally hard to read documents and I've always found saving
different versions prefereable as it provides evidence that the 15
changes that have been made by co-authors have resulted in the document
reverting to what I'd originally written!
>
> I lived with VMWare for a year, but felt like I had to maintain
> two OSes on one machine, and performance was slow.
>
I've heard virtualisation can be slow, but have never used it myself.
Thought it was worth mentioning though.
Neil
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