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- SDL486, on 05/08/2008, -1/+94On Monday night I told my entire education class about open office because some people could afford Microsoft Office and had to use the trial version for their presentation. People were ecstatic to hear there was an alternative. Just spreading the good word of open source software haha.
- defconoi, on 05/08/2008, -2/+65More info here as well: http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/
- Planets, on 05/08/2008, -3/+56OpenOffice is definitely a brilliant alternative. I don't think I'll ever go back to MS Office. It's a good product, but the free alternative is just as good.
- MrViklund, on 05/08/2008, -12/+59And what the hell has Ubuntu to do with OpenOffice? Post the real URL instead of Ubuntuspaming. Spam.
- lickmyback, on 05/08/2008, -2/+37I'm trying hard to think of the reason why you didn't link there in the first place...
- defconoi, on 05/08/2008, -6/+41Help screw microsoft office, and test out OpenOffice 3.0 and submit bug reports!
- RX9735, on 05/08/2008, -1/+32When I think of the Office 2007 budget; millions maybe even over a billion dollars since MS Office first came out, I wonder why it is'nt 100 years ahead. Open Office is amazing and the fact that it is free puts MS Office to shame.
- irishmint, on 05/08/2008, -0/+29Your too cheap...and your getting the macbook air?
- ptFoe, on 05/08/2008, -0/+27http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbet ...
Wow that is an impressive list of features. Hopefully they will have better integration with Thunderbird than what is currently shown. - sirhomer, on 05/08/2008, -2/+26Really what OpenOffice.org should have is have a fully customizable UI, similar to Firefox. So a user can download a "theme" and apply it to the office suite. This may be extremely difficult if the UI is hardcoded already (Firefox's UI is defined with simple XML and CSS data, making it very flexible).
- TritonX, on 05/08/2008, -2/+23The question is not if OO can open MS Office files, but will MS Office open the files created in OO properly. Because I had a lot of friends that I almost got converted to OO but when they were handing out their files, MS Office would screw everything, even when it was exported as a MSOffice file.
- cawpin, on 05/08/2008, -1/+21Now how is he supposed to get traffic to his website if he links directly to the source? *rolls eyes*
Really, I'm so glad they finally have native MAC support. I bought my first Mac about 6 months ago and the first thing I installed was OO.org. I knew they had a Mac version but didn't realize it depended on X11. That just doesn't work well. I then found NeoOffice, which is great, but is a couple of releases behind. - Tyr7BE, on 05/08/2008, -2/+22That may be, but how many of those features do you use? OOo does everything I need and more. Plus it has that awesome word completion feature that Office is lacking so badly. Typing in MS Office is actually painful after using OOo word completion for a while.
- FadieZ, on 05/08/2008, -0/+17I'm about to convince my college to get the update.
- debtman7, on 05/08/2008, -1/+17What's really interesting is that while MS has dropped VBA support on OS X, OpenOffice is starting to implement it. If they can get the UI polished and make it reasonably speedy on OSX, they could conceivably get a lot of business mac users switching over just for the VBA support. Of course, I have a suspicion the VBA support in OO might be a rather frustrating experience but who knows...
- debtman7, on 05/08/2008, -3/+19Most people I've talked to haven't found Office's new interface to be "easier". Maybe for first time office users (that's a big maybe), but for the most part I've heard nothing but complaints about how it's much harder to find options now and things they used to know how to do (mail merge, etc) are now harder to find and work completely differently...
- TheWindBlows, on 05/08/2008, -5/+20I take it OpenOffice's new clean looking icon set and the start center are the UI improvements. Thats not enough to beat MS Office's new easier Interface but, feature wise it seems MS Office is getting pushed out the door.
- inactive, on 05/08/2008, -5/+20truth, but for free it's a decent alternative
- mvent2, on 05/08/2008, -0/+14Microsoft says a lot of things.
- ThirdPrize, on 05/08/2008, -1/+14too bad Neo will probably disappear now.
- InuX, on 05/08/2008, -0/+12Rule #1 in opensource : Never give your application a decent name*
*name must not describe the product , hint at what it does, or even be pronounceable
:D - wbeavis, on 05/08/2008, -0/+12I have an early version of my resume I did in Word 2000. I used textboxes all over it. It has been the only document I use that had difficulty converting back and forth. I am not a feature heavy user of any Office suite, so this has been my benchmark. I've tested it against many of the releases. When OOo 2.4 came out, it was the first version to be able to convert my resume(old and new) back and forth between .doc and .odf without any noticable differences.
If you have not tried OOo recently, try it again. They seem to make lots of changes and improvements lately.
Also, remember OOo is not a MSOffice clone. OOo is a seperate Office suite that can open and save MS files. It has different features and different goals. There is overlap, there are things OOo does better and things it does worse. - darkalias, on 05/08/2008, -0/+11Only if you've got a quad-core coffee machine...
- dbit483, on 05/08/2008, -10/+20Have you ever tried to open a huge .xls with lots of formulas and charts in OO. M$ Office opens it almost instantly, OO can take minutes to open it and another minute to just process a field change. If they can address this in 3.0 I can finally switch to OO for good...
- Markpdotcom, on 05/08/2008, -1/+11In this case, *You're the jackass... ;)
- defconoi, on 05/08/2008, -1/+10download the debian version, right click extract to desktop, then double click the .deb file and click install, done.
- MacParrot, on 05/08/2008, -0/+8To be honest, you're really better off with a regular MacBook as compared to the Air. Sure it weighs a little more, but the trade off of low storage space (with no way to increase it other than external), no FireWire, no native wired ethernet port, no way to change the battery, and almost 1/3 higher price for slower processing makes the Air a bad bargain in my book. I'm as big a Mac user as you'll find, but I wouldn't recommend an Air to anyone except in extreme cases.
- webcrumb, on 05/08/2008, -0/+8Yes.
Though it's likely to have been waiting for you to come back after the first 10-20 seconds. - mizatt, on 05/08/2008, -0/+8This is a beta. You should probably tell them to wait for a solid, tested version.
- defconoi, on 05/08/2008, -0/+830 grand? damn, open office keeps getting better and better, try it now
- Trixie, on 05/08/2008, -3/+11OpenOffice.org, x.org; what ridiculous names for software applications.
- i88gerbils, on 05/08/2008, -0/+8On the other hand it is safe to ignore initial complaints about interface changes. Although the Office 2007 interface surprised me from a UI standpoint they made some good decisions. I don't use MS Office unless I'm editing some dumb Access project at work. Likewise I find much of the complaints about Open Office to be baseless, I've used it for years and it's been great since v1.x (although the 1.x versions were a bit slow). The interface is just fine. My only complaint is it being a pain in the ass to build on your own.
- Ratteler, on 05/08/2008, -8/+16Know what that sound is M$? That's the other shoe dropping!
- syphern, on 05/08/2008, -0/+7Hey guys please help - Linux NOOB here - how do i install this on a eeePC? I have enabled the normal KDE desktop please can someone show me step by step to updating open office on eeePC. I know how to add repos and use synaptic but if i manually download a file how do i install it? or does OO 3 have any repos I can add to my list to make things super easy?
- lamiaconfitor, on 05/08/2008, -5/+12the oply advantage Microsoft has over OoO is that you can pay microsoft tons of money for it.
- inactive, on 05/08/2008, -1/+8read the post before commenting
- 4321234, on 05/08/2008, -0/+7That's OK though, if you're not using vista, you have an extra 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999mb of memory to play with.
- defconoi, on 05/08/2008, -3/+10didnt anyone ever say to you "never say never" OoO can beat M$, and you will see it happen eventually
- mrgreen4242, on 05/08/2008, -0/+7Native OSX support is a big deal, imo. There's a lot of Apple users who won't buy MS products (I'm not one of those, but I'd still prefer not to use MSOffice) but OOo was pretty crappy on OSX. Choice was X11 which worked OK but didn't integrate well with the rest of the system or NeoOffice which was a resource hog/slow being a Java VM implementation. They could get a lot of the Office market if the product is good - iWork is for what it is, but sometimes you need something a little different.
- Planets, on 05/08/2008, -1/+8Does anyone know if the update checker will notify you when new developer snapshots are released?
- avatarpalin, on 05/08/2008, -2/+8That is true, but there is a time and a place... Either at a Cinema in between the Ad's and the Silent bit before the overproduced opening credit titles...Or at table when asked to say grace..
So take your digg down, and swallow.... Swallow!!!!!
...there - Big-Pat, on 05/08/2008, -0/+6What do you find wrong with it?
- darkalias, on 05/08/2008, -1/+7In OpenOffice.org 3 you actually CAN change the icon sets. There's Galaxy (standard), Tango, Industrial, and Crystal:
Start OpenOffice.org. Click Tools and Options. Click OpenOffice.org and View. Change Icon size and style.
Source: http://www.oooninja.com/2008/04/galaxy-icon-set-th ... - aaabatteries, on 05/08/2008, -1/+6But it's so shiny!
- inactive, on 05/08/2008, -0/+5@mrsteve007: running that argument is stupid. its just like saying that "oh, microsoft copys apple all the time!"
- infiNex, on 05/08/2008, -0/+5I love this program. I removed MS Office from my work computers and never looked back.
- Kazbaeden, on 05/08/2008, -1/+6I fail to see how the new layout is more confusing and hides advanced features. Every feature in the entire application is available to you in 2-3 clicks, with 99% of the features people use available in just 1 click. Furthermore, features are presented in the most semantically intutitive manner I've ever seen in an application.
I seriously doubt the mental capacity of your friends if they have trouble finding their way around this application after MONTHS of using it. -
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