Comments on: Ubuntu Now Calls Google Docs the Standard

By: Freeware

Freeware — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:42:57 +0000

Dear author, if you can’t use the obvious “Save as…” -> “.doc” feature of the OpenOffice.org suite, I doubt of your sufficient technical knowledge to write technical articles like this.

Regarding the Ubuntu’s switch to Google Docs – it’s well known and reported that during the recent couple of years a lot of Ubuntu developers were hired to develop what we all know now as Chrome OS. Thus Ubuntu gets huge money from Google in the scope of this project. No surprise that Google convinced them to switch to Google Docs.

Welcome to 1984!

By: Muhammad Faisal

Muhammad Faisal — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:15:44 +0000

I have been using open office for years and have never had that problem. It gives you the option of saving your document as a .doc or .docx which are the standard MS Word formats. Like I said, I do a lot of proof or clients and have never have never had any compatibility issues.

Using Open Office for free is a lot better than shelling out hundreds for Microsoft.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:12:25 +0000

Yeah I have to say it’s pretty ridiculous to expect a propietary software designed by a company oriented on making profit; to support a software format that is created by a not-for-profit organization, and is open source. Furthermore the fact that you couldn’t deduce a basic problem like software formats in advance should really discredit any reliability on your part as a write for a technology website. Finally; your title is entirely misleading, Google docs is the standard for Ubuntu Netbook Remix, not the standard desktop Ubuntu. Why? Well, let’s see here. Let’s give the basic definition of a netbook: Small, portable, and generally always connected to the internet for internet-oriented activities. It is not oriented to do any other thing, as it’s too underpowered to efficiently do much else anyways. Whereas the normal desktop edition, designed for full powered desktops and laptops is still with Open Office, as it is open source, free, and is practically the standard for Linux documents.

Please; do us all a favour and refrain from making such misleading and misinforming articles in the future. Thanks.

By: jjc

jjc — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:58:13 +0000

“could not open it in Microsoft Word”
yep a well known microsoft word and microsoft user problem

not an open office problem

By: porto

porto — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:57:15 +0000

Seriously? You couldn’t just tell open office to use doc format? There is a strawman here, but I can’t tell if you are strawmaning open office or your own deductive capabilities.