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Old 05-04-2010, 11:20 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by MovieBird View Post
Openoffice does not preserve formatting 100% in most Microsoft documents, which makes it useless for those that deal with corporate culture. Microsoft is the dominant office productivity package, like it or not. As long as Microsoft has this death grip over office productivity, anything that delivers less than 100% compatibility just doesn't cut it.
I seriously doubt that Microsoft's "death grip" still exists. And it is not OpenOffice that won that "format war". Adobe's PDF did. For every document that leaves the door of the corporation. Its been a long, long time that I've received word document or found one on a corporate web site.

Microsoft Office is still widely used, no doubt about it. But now it is somehow degraded to ... the internal choice of each and every corporation. PDF is Lingua franca, the "corporate format".
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