There is a huge error in this article that needs to be resolved immediately before lots of people get the wrong idea about openoffice.

The sub paragraph in section 7 that talks about a friend who installed openoffice and it 'converted' all of his files to openoffice format is blatently wrong.

I suggest 'your friend' have a look at the file extension on those files that were 'converted' and he will find that they are still '.doc' files (the proprietary file format of Microsoft Word) and not '.sxw' (the open file format of Open Office).

When installing Open Office it prompts you to decide whether you would like Open Office to be the default application for 'opening' files with the extensions .doc, .xls and .ppt. Your friend obviously said yes to this question (not heeding your advice to advance defensively ...) and so therefore his default application (and therefore default icon for these types of files) is that of Open Office.

Please fix this error in the article a.s.a.p because it is doing nothing but spreading FUD for the great project that Open Office is.

p.s. - your friend can remove open office and he will get back his Microsoft Office 'icons' and his files will still be in .doc, .xls and .ppt format.