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May 23, 2006View in Crawl 4
dont even compare open office to microsoft office. Open office lacks a ton of features that ms office has, its a basic office suite, it can in no way replace the office suite which millions of people and companies use. While i agree its a worthwhile replacement, people who do more than just basic word processing will appreciate ms office series
deadbaby, This is why it is important to note that this version of Office is trying to get back to that simplicity, while still providing thepower that more experienced users expect.
OpenOffice is freeTrain people to not use closed document/media formats that [may] require purchase of an Office Suite and/or operating system and instead teach them from the beginning to use free and open source and open document/media formats.
Most of the companies I deal with still use Office 2000!!!Office 2003 was too expensive a jump for too little.If you have to retrain your staff and pay $400 a pop why not change to OpenOffice if it fits the bill.I agree collaboration is good. But aside from Outlook, where is this in Office? How many compaines who can afford this don't already have network file sharing functionality in place, and e-mail to pass around or share output from Excel, Word and Powerpoint?My advice, try the Beta, if it floats your boat to the tune of $400 go for it. But don't just read the review with it's quotes of amazing collaborative functions and be fooled into thinking this is the best thing since the spectrum's rubber keys!My vote is for a modular version. Cut the price, cut the bloat and give the users more choice. AND DEFINITELY use a world standard for the format.
djnickMay 23, 2006
dont even compare open office to microsoft office. Open office lacks a ton of features that ms office has, its a basic office suite, it can in no way replace the office suite which millions of people and companies use. While i agree its a worthwhile replacement, people who do more than just basic word processing will appreciate ms office series
cquinndMay 24, 2006
deadbaby, This is why it is important to note that this version of Office is trying to get back to that simplicity, while still providing thepower that more experienced users expect.
escamilloMay 24, 2006
You do realize that Microsoft Publisher has been around since the early 90's long before Pages was even a twinkly in Jobs' eye, don't you?
Closed AccountMay 24, 2006
OpenOffice is freeTrain people to not use closed document/media formats that [may] require purchase of an Office Suite and/or operating system and instead teach them from the beginning to use free and open source and open document/media formats.
toxicorangeMay 24, 2006
Most of the companies I deal with still use Office 2000!!!Office 2003 was too expensive a jump for too little.If you have to retrain your staff and pay $400 a pop why not change to OpenOffice if it fits the bill.I agree collaboration is good. But aside from Outlook, where is this in Office? How many compaines who can afford this don't already have network file sharing functionality in place, and e-mail to pass around or share output from Excel, Word and Powerpoint?My advice, try the Beta, if it floats your boat to the tune of $400 go for it. But don't just read the review with it's quotes of amazing collaborative functions and be fooled into thinking this is the best thing since the spectrum's rubber keys!My vote is for a modular version. Cut the price, cut the bloat and give the users more choice. AND DEFINITELY use a world standard for the format.