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| Time: 14:20 EST/19:20 GMT | News Source: PC World | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Looking for a way for your office to break away from Office? MS Office is clearly king of the productivity-suite hill, but there are plenty of reasons to defect. Whether your motives are based on principle, price, or features, if you're looking to supplant MS Office, we've got three recommendations for you. | ||
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| #1 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 1/31/2006 6:15:36 PM |
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"Principle" - A new Codeword for blind hatred towards Microsoft?
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| #2 By 1401 (65.255.137.20) at 1/31/2006 10:11:03 PM |
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Here is a list of good MS Office alternatives:
Office XP Office 2000 Office 97 |
| #3 By 9589 (66.56.129.233) at 2/1/2006 12:17:06 AM |
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Tick tock . . . Tick Tock . . .
Still waiting for a major tech magazine to do a side by side feature list of the top office suites available today. You know, like those elaborate PC Magazine tri folds of yore when Microsoft, Lotus and Word Perfect were duking it out. Don't hold your breath. The present version of Office is so far ahead of the competition that they haven't bothered in years. Instead we get the occasional article like this one - get your half-baked office, brand X over here, something that is kinda integrated, hey! get this one for nothing, etc. lol |
| #4 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 2/1/2006 8:17:59 AM |
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For all your talk, I'd be willing to bet that OpenOffice does everything that any of you would use MS Office for. What's the good of extra features if you don't use them? The average user uses less than 10% of what MS Office can do.
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| #5 By 23278 (12.11.161.5) at 2/1/2006 10:20:31 AM |
| #4 where did you read that? |
| #6 By 7754 (65.27.90.2) at 2/1/2006 11:10:41 AM |
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I'm surprised WordPerfect wasn't rated more highly. It's a very competent package.
Latch, the biggest problem in our case is that our clients don't use OpenOffice. You can't have 99% compatibility; it has to be 100%. Otherwise, the time spent cleaning up documents--or even simply looking through every document just to be sure there are no conversion mistakes--will quickly gobble up anything saved in licensing costs. And, the first poorly checked document that goes out looking bad at a client's machine is damaging to our reputation, which could be far more costly still. There are some functionality differences that would also cause problems (Word's Review/Track Changes feature is much more robust than Writer's), but unless OpenOffice can provide 100%, no-questions-asked file compatibility, it simply isn't even an option. |
| #7 By 7390 (24.189.221.167) at 2/1/2006 12:34:21 PM |
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OH god, not this topic again again
Isn't this topic at least 3 years old? Wasn’t every .org, .edu and .gov supposed to switch over and get rid of the chains of tyranny? The price point is too high for new entry. Not technologically but mentally and marketing. Also, what is the added value for switching? OpenOffice is free and no one cares. I may not use all of the features that office has to offer, so what is your point? |
| #8 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 2/1/2006 11:50:00 PM |
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Even our most lay, new or naive users and least epxerienced [technically] clients ALL make extensive use of Microsoft Office's native ability to connect to, sharepoint services, that connects Outlook to workspaces, calendars, contacts, Live Meeting and non-linear business analysis via reporting services web parts. Organizations of all kinds are saving not just huge dollars but TIME - precious personal and family time - connecting personal Office productivity to online collaboration and meeting sites used with Live Meeting.
While virtually none use 1% of what any one of the Office suite programs can actually do - all of them - even the least sophisticated, uses the dog-water out of the very features that truly differentiate Microsoft Office from all of its competitors. Finally, for even noob admins, it is a breeze to leverage and manage these differentiating features, which places them within the reach of even the smallest companies. The Office System really is different and where it is most different, it really does work! |
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