Comments on: Microsoft’s Interoperable Assimilation http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=94 How to get off, where to get off, and why you should stay off Microsoft, with news and tips on alternatives Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:31:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=94&cpage=1#comment-74808 admin Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:13:13 +0000 http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=94#comment-74808 Dan'l, thanks for your reply and the info about the Word converter for the Mac version. FYI, I began typing this on an iPhone, but even with its keyboard in landscape mode (in Safari) it was tough going. However, it's cool to be able to even do this with a pocket phone. My Mac word processor of late is NeoOfficeJ, which reads and writes Word doc files fairly well and offers most of the formatting capabilities of Word. Why? Because it's free, and updates are free -- an important consideration for small businesses and professionals. TextEdit is also free and opens Word docs. It opens fast so I can get my ideas down without waiting. I also use Google Docs because I like the way it makes HTML links and lets me copy unadulterated HTML-formatted text directly to a web page or blog. It's also free (and updates, obviously, are free as they occur on the server). And I use the free version of BBEdit for quick conversion of text to ASCII code, quick find-replace for things like tabs and returns, and hard-core HTML formatting -- such as adding Amazon.com affiliate frames, widgets, etc. I think Microsoft has a lot to learn from these approaches to word processing (especially for Mac users) and maybe even something to learn from iPhone "word processing". With multiple tools -- all free and most offer free updates -- I have a very rich word processing environment that offers more functions than Word. What's more, the applications are all interoperable, relying on HTML, RTF, and the established Word doc format to remain so. Dan’l, thanks for your reply and the info about the Word converter for the Mac version.

FYI, I began typing this on an iPhone, but even with its keyboard in landscape mode (in Safari) it was tough going. However, it’s cool to be able to even do this with a pocket phone. My Mac word processor of late is NeoOfficeJ, which reads and writes Word doc files fairly well and offers most of the formatting capabilities of Word. Why? Because it’s free, and updates are free — an important consideration for small businesses and professionals. TextEdit is also free and opens Word docs. It opens fast so I can get my ideas down without waiting. I also use Google Docs because I like the way it makes HTML links and lets me copy unadulterated HTML-formatted text directly to a web page or blog. It’s also free (and updates, obviously, are free as they occur on the server). And I use the free version of BBEdit for quick conversion of text to ASCII code, quick find-replace for things like tabs and returns, and hard-core HTML formatting — such as adding Amazon.com affiliate frames, widgets, etc.

I think Microsoft has a lot to learn from these approaches to word processing (especially for Mac users) and maybe even something to learn from iPhone “word processing”. With multiple tools — all free and most offer free updates — I have a very rich word processing environment that offers more functions than Word. What’s more, the applications are all interoperable, relying on HTML, RTF, and the established Word doc format to remain so.

]]> By: Dan'l Lewin http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=94&cpage=1#comment-74781 Dan'l Lewin Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:55:13 +0000 http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=94#comment-74781 Tony, I just left a longer comment on AlwaysOn at my post about interoperability. It is feedback from the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit on how to (currently) get Mac Office to open Office 2007 documents until the two version are in sych -- soon, we hear. Hope this helps. thanks for the comments. Dan'l Tony,

I just left a longer comment on AlwaysOn at my post about interoperability. It is feedback from the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit on how to (currently) get Mac Office to open Office 2007 documents until the two version are in sych — soon, we hear.

Hope this helps.
thanks for the comments.

Dan’l

]]> By: Dan'l Lewin http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=94&cpage=1#comment-74780 Dan'l Lewin Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:50:05 +0000 http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=94#comment-74780 Tony, Belatedly, I just added a comment on my AlwaysOn post on interoperability on the current compatbility issues between Mac Office and Office for PCs. Versions out of synch but catching up soon. I hope it helps in the mean time. thanks for your comments, Dan'l http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/14874#comment6481 Tony,

Belatedly, I just added a comment on my AlwaysOn post on interoperability on the current compatbility issues between Mac Office and Office for PCs. Versions out of synch but catching up soon. I hope it helps in the mean time.

thanks for your comments,

Dan’l

http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/14874#comment6481

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