Comments on: The Trouble with OpenOffice.org http://www.marteydodoo.com/2006/10/18/the-trouble-with-openofficeorg/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:14:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: MarteyDodoo.com » Zero-Day Attack in Microsoft Word http://www.marteydodoo.com/2006/10/18/the-trouble-with-openofficeorg/#comment-19092 MarteyDodoo.com » Zero-Day Attack in Microsoft Word Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:39:21 +0000 http://www.marteydodoo.com/2006/10/18/the-trouble-with-openofficeorg/#comment-19092 [...] Extreme caution could mean taking any number of actions before deciding to open an attached Word document, from running it through an antivirus program (which would currently be fruitless, as none of them have currently released definitions to detect such dangerous Word documents), to emailing the sender back to ensure that they actually sent the file in question (as opposed to a message sent by malware), to using an alternative program not affected by the vulnerability to open Word documents. tags: security, vulnerability, zero day, Microsoft Word [...] [...] Extreme caution could mean taking any number of actions before deciding to open an attached Word document, from running it through an antivirus program (which would currently be fruitless, as none of them have currently released definitions to detect such dangerous Word documents), to emailing the sender back to ensure that they actually sent the file in question (as opposed to a message sent by malware), to using an alternative program not affected by the vulnerability to open Word documents. tags: security, vulnerability, zero day, Microsoft Word [...]

]]> By: Christina http://www.marteydodoo.com/2006/10/18/the-trouble-with-openofficeorg/#comment-17734 Christina Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:09:15 +0000 http://www.marteydodoo.com/2006/10/18/the-trouble-with-openofficeorg/#comment-17734 I think the problem is that OpenOffice tries to play catchup to MS Office instead of thinking about how to create a new, better environment. As a result, you just have second-rate features with weird names to avoid trademark suits that generally suck and are ugly. I use OpenOffice for the principle of it, but it makes me hurt so much on the inside sometimes. I think the problem is that OpenOffice tries to play catchup to MS Office instead of thinking about how to create a new, better environment. As a result, you just have second-rate features with weird names to avoid trademark suits that generally suck and are ugly.

I use OpenOffice for the principle of it, but it makes me hurt so much on the inside sometimes.

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