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- imashmuck, on 04/18/2008, -0/+38The point is that OpenOffice doesn't cost 500 or 600 dollars. I have MSOffice and like it, but you can't argue that it's a ripoff to buy, especially when there is a free alternative.
- talonstriker, on 04/18/2008, -0/+36Awesome, I'm really looking forward to the PDF import feature.
- QsheiK, on 04/18/2008, -0/+30Being legally free.
- Kingoftherings, on 04/18/2008, -4/+30I already have MS Office, but I'm thinking about moving to OOo just to support FOSS, I don't even use MS Office all that often anyway. :)
- mossblaser, on 04/18/2008, -1/+23Woo Hoo!
Finally has picture cropping!
This release is looking more and more like it could alleviate most of the caveats I have with OOo. Not to say the current version is bad (I use it instead of MS Office entirely), but this next release should be excellent. - hipnerd, on 04/18/2008, -0/+21Decent HTML generation from documents.
Native PDF support.
Flash export.
Cross-platform support for Linux.
Oh yeah, and it's free. - qwuinc, on 04/18/2008, -0/+21The standard... heh.
- UberNick, on 04/18/2008, -0/+18Next time create the resume in OOo then export it as a PDF. Problem solved!
- Kypt, on 04/18/2008, -0/+18Its legally free for download
- ha1f, on 04/18/2008, -1/+16Why isn't this in the software section?
- jonvdveen, on 04/18/2008, -1/+15Not to attack you, but I find your comment ironic considering that your profile picture is an MS Windows stock image! ;-)
- jjustin01, on 04/18/2008, -0/+12What does your piracy speech have to do with an article that is about downloading a free, open-source product?
Have you been holding on to the speech for so long that you felt this was as good a place as any to put it?
I'm just trying to understand it's relevance - rmjb, on 04/18/2008, -1/+13You don't get MS Office for "free" it's an itemised cost that you can remove, and often it costs more than some core components in your PC. What you get for free is a MS Office trial, which asks you to pay for it 30/60/90 days after.
Unless by "free" you mean pirated... which I'm not sure if MS appreciates. - allbubba, on 04/18/2008, -0/+11A price point lower than the cost of the hardware that its running on.
- antifreze, on 04/18/2008, -5/+14please bury.
- theaceoffire, on 04/18/2008, -0/+9You can try out the portable OO.o version, so that you don't have to install it:
http://portableapps.com/news/2008-04-15_-_openoffi ... - 0Degrees, on 04/18/2008, -0/+8De-facto yes... by any other definition, it's debatable.
- latova, on 04/18/2008, -2/+10Theres actually pretty much nothing you can't do in OOo that you can do in MS Office. OOo actually has a few things that MS office doesn't but probably isn't practical for the everyday user.
As long as you can adjust to a couple of options being in other places, OOo works great, and you'll wonder why you ever bothered buying/pirating/whatever MS office.
Also it supports doc and rtf just fine for import/export so theres no need to worry about sending things out to other people, although its ALWAYS preferable to have it in odf ;) - SteveMax, on 04/18/2008, -1/+8Good joke... Next you will be saying that in the design world there is no competition for Paint, or Imaging.
- theaceoffire, on 04/18/2008, -1/+8Haven't a lot of people hated the ribbon?
- loneBoat, on 04/18/2008, -1/+8I've bought my share of new computers, and I've never received a "free" copy bundled. They've often come with MS Works and a 30-day Office TRIAL, but never a full-blown copy of MS Office.
- imashmuck, on 04/18/2008, -0/+7I never said I paid for it.
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -0/+6lol America......
- lsalih, on 04/18/2008, -4/+10Support Open-Source in general. Download Ubuntu if you're still using Windows.
- talonstriker, on 04/18/2008, -0/+6Off the top of my head, a ***** ton of plugins and 3d shape creation. The latter is particularly useful for presentations.
And its free. (Yeah I know MSOffice is free for some people..) - anshuman, on 04/18/2008, -0/+6they gotta massively overhaul UI before they release OO 3.0 stable.
- theaceoffire, on 04/18/2008, -0/+6Not the version in Office. A new version they made, remade, and then after getting approved had a bunch of people set up to also remake it.
- kipmartin, on 04/18/2008, -0/+6use NeoOffice. its great on OSX.
- 0Degrees, on 04/18/2008, -0/+6Less buggy numbered and bullet point lists.
- Macuyiko, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5Developers with a better mentality.
- LastDitchHero, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5Hopefully some welcome improvements will come with 3.0. The Sun Report Builder has already improved a lot on Base, Calc already has some good improvements. If you do casual office work and you are going to pay for MS Office, use OOo for a week then decide.
- LastDitchHero, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5Umm....Tools - Options, expand OpenOffice.org then select View, change the Icons to whatever you want. I recommend crystal svg
- belthesar, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5Apparently you haven't used the OpenOffice beta that has a Cocoa interface. Check it out, you might be surprised.
- credence, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5You're not the boss of me.
- mazza558, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5Abiword?
- melat0nin, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5As you can see, the community is absolutely in agreement with you.
- vertigoblue, on 04/18/2008, -0/+4i love lamp?
- Mutton, on 04/18/2008, -0/+4Make it prettier and make the UI easier to use. Seriously, people like pretty things. You will get more laymen trying it out.
- jkgm, on 04/18/2008, -0/+4You're stealing his gay? Gay what? You can't just stop mid-sentence! I want to know what you're stealing that's gay!
- comstock76, on 04/18/2008, -0/+4I do not find anything about the ribbon innovative. It's a poor design and another way for M$ to make more money. Usability of the ribbon and it's features are deplorable. I don't understand how that thing was released to the public. Word used to be a semi-fairly stable program, since I've updated to 2007, it has crashed more then Lindsey Lohan does on any given weekend.
- melat0nin, on 04/18/2008, -0/+4You are an idiot and clearly have no understanding of the rich and varied reasons for and culture behind open source.
- clockdist, on 04/18/2008, -1/+5User Google Apps!
- vertigoblue, on 04/18/2008, -0/+4life will be a video game on April 29th
- spyres, on 04/18/2008, -1/+5Talk to us when Office actually uses OOXML
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3Hmm, I have an idea for Apple. the iDictionary:
Delusions: The only reason Mac is still popular.
Hypocrisy: See "Apple Fanboys" - 0Degrees, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3...and your making this point here for what reason?
Not commenting on whether I agree or not - just seems like off topic spam. - ChuqAU, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3Free? Only if you call "locking yourself in to MS's proprietary format" "free",
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3Considering Word sucks very bad for publishing in the first place... :P
Honestly, If your doing publishing, there are programs 10 times better for the job than MS office. Granted, Inkscape isn't exactly what you think of when you think "Professional Desktop Publishing", but it works and fast, and there are better programs just like it.
Oh, and there are some useful things that OOo has been able to do for a while, like PDF export.
This really is equivalent to saying that IE has no competition. Sure, OOo isn't the Firefox of Office software, but it's damn well on it's way. - inactive, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3One word: Spamowitz.
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