[ShadowAce]

[rit]

I see that, according to the Inquirer, the French Defence Department rejects OpenOffice, claiming that it is not secure enough. You would think they would have deferred in case open source developers could have addressed the issues in a timely manner.

[antiRepublicrat]

I actually had high hopes when MS announced this release. Oh well, MS is back to its old tricks I guess.

[DesScorp]

No surprise here. This has been the MS corporate line since Office 97; use our stuff or be left out in the cold. Once upon a time, MS sold companies on Windows NT on the idea that it would play nice with their existing Unix and Novell servers. Now their attitude is "use ALL of our stuff, or jump through hoops". Active Directory is a picture-perfect example. Though LDAP is part of AD's makeup, try getting AD to work with another LDAP server out of the box...

[LibertarianInExile]

Of course, the assumption here is that anyone owns MS Word 2007 to begin with. I know few people who use anything more current than 2000.

OpenOffice does seem a little slow, though. I haven't crossed over there yet. But Firefox is solid.