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  1. Bug #1 (liberation)
  2. Comment #417

Comment 417 for bug 1

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Amir E. Aharoni (amir-aharoni) wrote : Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

On 23/07/07, Stephanvaningen <email address hidden> wrote:
> - The only
> files on their windows system are probably just some .doc, .xls, .ppt,
> .jpg-pictures from holidays and some mp3's -- all easilly usable on Ubuntu.

Not quite.

Maybe in English-speaking countries, but not here in Israel.

MS-Office documents written in Hebrew don't open so well in OpenOffice.

Also, VBA macros don't work in OpenOffice, and many people depend on
them - that's a global problem.

That is the only reason that i, despite all my dedication to Free
Software, gave up and bought licenses for Vista and Office - i just
have too much Office files in Hebrew, which i need for academic work.
(I use Ubuntu for everything else).

Microsoft has a good reason to fight OpenOffice and keep the Office
file formats locked in the vault... :(