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- Frankzulla, on 11/14/2009, -2/+40I'm surprised it was this close to the actual release.
- Kuci06, on 11/14/2009, -6/+25Woohoo, another design?
I just got familiar the last one - HeavyWave, on 11/14/2009, -2/+18I still get confused as to where "Save as..." button is.
- m4dp1x3l, on 11/14/2009, -2/+17Beta 2 has been on torrents for almost a month. Technical Preview since like July.
- m4dp1x3l, on 11/14/2009, -0/+13The main menu has been redesigned and isn't as hard to find in the top left corner (they made it look like a tab, except colored and with the word "File"). The File menu no longer brings up a menu similar to the Start Menu, but instead acts like a tab that covers the whole window. Lifehacker (this Digg link) has a screenshot of what I'm talking about.
- JupiterSSJ4, on 11/14/2009, -2/+15it's going to be released in 2010... so no.
- Zippo, on 11/14/2009, -0/+13I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're confused... or don't have a clue what you're talking about...
a) it's MS Office... I don't know where you're getting "open source" from.
b) Open source software is torrent'ed all the time, since it's the best way to get it out there. - kernel16, on 11/15/2009, -1/+13Anyone saying OpenOffice is amazing never had to use Excel for anything more than simple graphs. OO Calc, or wte it's called on OO sucks major balls compared to Excel.
- Ev3nt372, on 11/14/2009, -2/+11I say the Office 2007 GUI is great in that it nicely shows and exposes the functions you have available unlike 2003 where it was buried somewhere deep in a menu and you only know about it because you learned it in a class or something. Im glad they used the same GUI in the Wordpad and mspaint in Windows7.
- Greg2k, on 11/14/2009, -0/+9F12
- brainboy7777, on 11/14/2009, -1/+9anyone got it? any major differences?
- AeroZeppelin, on 11/14/2009, -3/+10See -- when a company releases a free open source product that pretty much mimics everything Microsoft Office does, people still bitch and complain.
This is why we can't have good things. - mabsark, on 11/15/2009, -0/+7For a Beta test version? You're becoming more retarded with every post you make.
- directedition, on 11/14/2009, -1/+7I apologize, I didn't see the "Beta" part.
- Frostek, on 11/14/2009, -3/+9OpenOffice is certainly missing the proprietary lock-in that Microsoft offers.
And they still haven't got around to BRIBING the ISO people yet, like ***** Microsoft. - Zippo, on 11/14/2009, -1/+6Most people I know are still running Office '03. Then again, a lot people I know are still running an eight-year-old OS.
- DRT23, on 11/14/2009, -2/+6Digging the new look, clean and simplistic.
- datdamonfoo, on 11/15/2009, -0/+4*Yawn*
- kernel16, on 11/15/2009, -1/+5OpenOffice is a pile of *****. Nothing beats Excel.
- Greg2k, on 11/14/2009, -1/+5The problem here is "pretty much". OpenOffice, while good, cannot compete with Microsoft Office, especially since 2007, in environments where Office is used at all times, for pretty much everything. Any hardcore user will tell you Excel has no competitor. Outlook is the most widely used application in corporate environments.
And this, and not some malevolent scheme from Redmond, is what is keeping Open Office down. It has nothing to do with OSS vs commercial software, it's just this particular suite not being as good as the one you pay for. - DarkShroud, on 11/14/2009, -0/+4Word no longer needs a plug-in to save as .pdf or .xps.
- mabsark, on 11/15/2009, -0/+4In Soviet Russia, YOU pay the comapny to work for them!
- DRT23, on 11/14/2009, -0/+4Shortcuts are pretty much always the same regardless of version:
http://www.computerhope.com/shortcut/word.htm - DarkShroud, on 11/14/2009, -1/+5A lot of people don't actually pay for Office. Anyway there is a free web based version coming out within the year.
- Dantehman17, on 11/14/2009, -1/+4I tried the review version and wasn't impressed, I went back to 2007.
No big differences besides visual appearance. - mabsark, on 11/15/2009, -1/+4Open Office IS available for distribution on bittorrent. What difference does that make to you?
The bittorrent protocol is used all the time to officially distribute software, as it removes all the bandwidth costs associated with distribution from a central server, making the cost of distribution essentialy zero.
http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ - DRT23, on 11/14/2009, -1/+4...not really.
- WickedAngelR6, on 11/15/2009, -2/+5OpenOffice is garbage, sorry.
Even Google has better offerings than OO. - Milkywayer, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2lol @ HeavyWave,
the first laughter of my day. Thank you xD
using office2007 myself though. - datdamonfoo, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2@Cryoniq
Uh, as a research scientist, excel is probably one of the most important programs we use. - dustout, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2do you work for IBM?
- catalysis, on 11/14/2009, -2/+4Most companies will never upgrade from XP + Office '03. Thankfully my company at least lets me buy my own software with my own money, so I don't have to pull my hair out thinking about how much better I can work with contemporary software.
- pintomp3, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2He's a corporate apologist who's high on Randian fumes.
- Zalyster, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2As far as I can tell neither does 2007, unless it was somehow installed unbeknownst to me?
- dig1x, on 11/15/2009, -0/+1This isnt a big deal. It's widely distributed to MS-internal people, technical partners and many others.
Of course it would be leaked. - Frostek, on 11/14/2009, -1/+2The people have had enough of .DOC!
- Cryoniq, on 11/15/2009, -0/+1Yeah.. Excel.. so.. why one need Excel again?
- Malnilion, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1Good point, unfortunately I'm no longer a student. I may be able to get a copy relatively cheap when my brother goes to college next year. Honestly, though, I don't see myself needing Office 2010 enough to pay anywhere near $100 for it.
- austroLogi, on 11/14/2009, -3/+4V-B-A, I use it every day, makes office much much more powerful.
Link it with access or sql server and forget about it, they have a great product. - dawnraid101, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1***** man you have got some serious links there.
- DarkShroud, on 11/14/2009, -1/+2Students can get Office 2007 Ultimate for under $100. There is also going to be a free web version soon as well.
I personally will wait for Ultimate 2010 and get a copy from a younger relative still in college. If you're using the software for 3+ years paying less than $100 is a great deal. - 3242130193, on 11/15/2009, -0/+1Oh yeah dude, check it out!
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/01/1 ... - palehorse864, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1I'm looking at screenshots, and visually, Word 2010 at least looks like a step backward Word 2007. I know it's a word processor, and it doesn't have to look pretty, but when I'm working on a long essay or something that I would rather not be dealing with, Word 2007 was so much easier on my eyes than open office or my previous office software office '97.
I hope the current design is preliminary and they will spruce it up later, or give options. - DarkShroud, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1There is a plug-in for Word 2007 to do this provided by MS. It was done this way because Adobe was suing MS in every way possible to prevent Word from saving .pdf files.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa ... - dig1x, on 11/15/2009, -1/+1"Most companies will never upgrade from XP + Office '03. Thankfully "
That's utter nonsense.
Most firms of any size get site licenseses, and they're going to move to W7 very rapidly. - crapiolio, on 11/14/2009, -1/+1If you are good enough, you will use shortcuts with no hassle. If you are not good enough and not willing to adapt, don't ever upgrade beyond 2003.
- kernel16, on 11/15/2009, -6/+6OpenOffice sucks, no really it does.
- inactive, on 11/15/2009, -1/+1So we make excuses for a lazily-built interface by saying "use the shortcuts"
I'm sorry but you've never had to deal with working all day in superior software like Indesign or Quark and then having to take a beautifully kerned and designed document and backwards re-make it in power point. The whole program is retarded, getting images and text to line up correctly is a pain in the ass, there is no logical color swatch menu, having graphics resting outside the bounding box shouldn't result in the print job having those graphics print outside the box, playing with typography is non-existent, it is a horrible program. Let's not also forget there is not even a DPI setting.
Also don't get me started on MS Word on the reasoning that you can't just drop an image anywhere on your document and type anywhere, everything has to follow a grid. -
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