On 2018-08-01 12:11, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 01/08/18 11:02, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2018-08-01 09:04, Chris wrote:
nospam wrote:
In article , Anssi Saari
wrote:


MS underestimated Android in the phone market.
They might fail again with the desktop.

Here's hoping (for Microsoft's demise). But I think it's more like a
paradigm shift happened. Absolutely nothing threatens Microsoft on the
PC desktop,

quite a bit does. chromebooks are very strong in education and web apps
(mainly google) are winning out over ms office.

Not in the UK. Schools and universities are wall to wall MS. Which is
particularly depressing given the lack of money in schools.

I was in a classroom a few years back here (Spain), and the funny thing
was that the school officially embraced free software; yet the teachers
wrote their pieces on Word instead of LibreOffice, so the students did
the same (without licenses). Someone really using LO had a bit of a
problem because the formatting often is not accurately converted.

I have found thats generally NOT an issue if the same fonts are installed

That's one of the issues. Others are complicated pages with tables and
figures. Pages in which just one tiny change would produce one more
page. Differences in margin interpretation.

Even different versions of M. Office produce different results. What's
more, different computers with the same Office software produce
different results; in many cases I found out it was differences in the
default printer.


Most of the people I saw used Windows and Office without licenses, so MS
was getting nothing - except that the people got familiar with MS and
demand MS products later.


Mmm.

But companies are just rubbish really. I mean would you believe a
company that prints from WORD onto letterhead PAPER, scans the result
and emails it as a PDF?

LOL. I have not seen that lately, except for one reason: the letter had
to carry the handwritten signature of somebody. The alternative I have
seen was to have the signature scanned and saved as a picture, then
inserted on the document.

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Cheers, Carlos.