[Ti] [OT] Microsoft Office : PC versus Mac

[Massimo Marino]

It is amazing how these myths still persist among people who know 
NOTHING about Macs. Like the one-button mouse issue. Who are those many 
silly uninformed people, I wonder. Unfortunately they are not very 
professional: never spread Al-Sahafisms.
(neologisms from the Iraqis Minister of Information)

People on PC won't even realize his Word files come from a Mac if he 
does not tell (or for what that matters anything produced with 
Office.X).

He does not have to believe you: point him to the Microsoft site itself 
where they boast full compatibility of Office.X (for OS X) themselves. 
Microsoft has a whole set of pages for their products for OS X. For 
them it is a point of pride to be fully compatible.
The Mac Unit in Redmont would be fired at once if they still had 
problem of incompatibilities as it was in the long gone early 1990 era.

Cheers

	Massimo

On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 02:20 AM, PowerBook G4 Titanium List 
wrote:

> Message-Id: <a05210603bac0d4707143@[10.0.0.16]>
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:16:39 +0200
> From: "Trevor J. Hutley" <hutley at geneva-link.ch>
> Subject: [Ti] [OT] Microsoft Office : PC versus Mac
>
>
> I have a friend who, as a result of seeing my Ti-500 demonstrated and
> in action, is thinking of moving from PC laptop to Mac.
>
> A Switcher !
>
> But many people have told him that Microsft Office (specifically
> Word) documents are not comaptible between PC and Mac.  Since these
> are the dociuments that are the mainstay of his work (as a
> consultant) he is now worried about switching.
>
> As far as I know, the Office documents since 1997 have been using the
> same file format, PC or Mac, and so there should be no compatibility
> issues, these days.
>
> Does anyone have anything tosay about this, or any Link to point me
> to, for "Chapter and Verse" on the compatibility issue.
>
> This would be make-or-break information, as to whether my friend 
> switches.
>
> All insight welcome.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> regards,  Trevor
>

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Massimo Marino
NERSC Division - HPC Department
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
On leave at CERN, CH, EP Division, Atlas experiment
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