Posted on 12/29/2009 8:11:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
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I use OpenOffice 3.x and it works like a charm.
Same here, I am extremely happy with this software.
I like Open Office.
For most home users, OO.org is more than sufficient. After the 3.x releases, it’s actually starting to be somewhat pleasant to use. Once I finished school, I had no need of MS Office on any of my home PCs (it also helps that I also ditched Windows for Ubuntu on 3 out of my 4 PCs).
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I mean, for gawd's sake, it's got ITS OWN WIKIPEDIA PAGE.
I just read that. Most of it sounds like capitalistic competition.
I LOVE Open office! I recommend it to anybody I meet... No reason whatsoever to buy Microsoft office.
I had to chuckle when I went to register it and they asked the question, why did you pick open office... and one of the quick answer choices on the pull down was “because it is not Microsoft”
Don’t worry. Fascism is in full swing nowadays and you guys will be happy to see MS soon fully controlled by the courts and the Justice Department. Damn. I’ll miss these threads.
Most of it is.
The problem is ethical, not economic. EEE incorporates not just capitalistic business practices, but also deceit and/or business agreements that are ignored.
Microsoft used to be a very good company, and used to compete successfully on technical merit. Unfortunately they haven't been able to compete on merit for nearly two decades, and have instead used the clout of Windows being the default business computing platform to crush those who could beat them on merit.
Microsoft's business managers are no longer capitalists, they have become mere crude slobs, business-wise. It's very disappointing to those of us who used to think very well of Microsoft.
I use it at home.
But I am stuck with word perfect at work. At least I finally got a co worker to quit using wordpad for his word processor(don’t ask me I have no idea). And I got another to give up works, and another to give up word. I wasn’t able to consolidate everyone on open office. I did get everyone consolidated on word perfect but I had to quit using open office in the bargain.
Things were really screwed up there for awhile. One guy was using floppies, one was using rewritable mini CDs, and one was using flash cards with an adapter. I was using 750mb zip disks. I agreed to give those up and switch to thumbdrives.
I have been using Open Office exclusively for one year now.
It “may” be a little slower and it “may” be different in how it operates but the fact that it is free makes it an easy package to accept. Free is always good as long as it is comparable with MS Word.
There once were several fine word processors,spreadsheets,databases,etc,that were not clones of each other or MS stuff.
MS has won its share more through questionable ethics in marketing ,than by technical merit alone.But sometimes the competition did really dumb things,too. Nor is MS the first company to bully their way to the top-for a real eye-opener investigate retailing,especially groceries,pet products,and personal care items.
The playing field isn't level,maybe never has been;the rich kid always could come to the game with a new mitt,ball,and uniform and a private coach.
Welcome to capitalism, Microsoft. Why so serious?
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