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[Dylan McCall <dylanmccall@xxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, sorry this missed alpha 2, folks.

Current content in the soon to be committed office.html for Natty:

“Ubuntu comes with LibreOffice; a free office suite packed with
everything you need to create high quality documents, spreadsheets and
presentations. LibreOffice is based on OpenOffice and tries its best to
work with other applications like Microsoft Word.”

The latter was “Microsoft Office” but we don't actually support the
entire MS Office suite (OneNote?), saying Office one more time in that
sentence had me wanting to throw up, and people typically refer to parts
of the suite like “Word” and “Excel” anyway.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/644150

Title:
  Slideshow for OpenOffice states OOo is "fully compatible" with
  Microsoft Office which is not true

Status in Installer Slideshows for Ubuntu & friends:
  Triaged
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  The slide for OpenOffice in Ubiquity (viewing now on the Netbook ISO
  Wubi install) says:

  OpenOffice.org is fully compatible with Microsoft Office" and that is
  not true.

  It is "mostly" compatible... or somewhat compatible, but not fully
  compatible due to Microsoft's heavy use of VBscript and such in Office
  tools like Access and Excel.

  Also, MS Word docs do not always render properly in OO and vice versa
  due to some variance in how the configurations for each document type
  is handled.

  This is a very common complaint about using OpenOffice and saying that
  it is "fully compatible" is not accurate.