SD> TW> They are current being developed as seperate products. I expect at some
SD> TW> time in the future one of them will fade away. Meanwhile there are
SD> TW> two very fine replecements for MS Office and both have very good
SD> TW> compatability. Although according to Alan here Libre is on top  of
SD> TW> Compatability game a bit more thasn Apache.

SD>LibreOffice is far and away better in compatibility with MS Office documents

SD>As someone who uses MS Office very heavily in school, except for a few quirk
SD>with PowerPoint slides, LibreOffice works just fine for what I need.

I got used to OO and Apache OO opening power poiuntsd in Edit mode since
i used the MS power point viewer for viewing. Libra opens them as a
slide sohw and theree is NO way to chwenge that. One needs to shende the
extension to .ppt if you want to edit, OR borrow some of the slides!!
:-)
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