Who buys this stuff? Open Office is free folks. Does the same thing.
I have and use it, too, but if you think it’s as good as MS Office, I’ve got to disagree with you. I think Office is the one great thing MS does. And it’s even better on a mac.
Tell me about it ... been trying to get a Linux installation on my laptop for weeks now, and finally succeeded two days ago (Ubuntu 7.04). I'm a newbie to Linux and don't know a darn thing about it, but from what I've seen with it so far, this OS is the Cats A$$ :)
The wonderful thing is also that its free, as well as most of the fully functional applications available, which from what I've seen so far rival any of the Windoze apps that ya have'ta pay for
It’s free and worth every penny.
Some people just have too much money, apparently, and are in a hurry to give it to Microsoft.
OpenOffice.org works fine for me.
It does the same thing... until you need to program it. For most uses, OOo will work great. But more specialized tricks use VBA to combine Office's tools in unique ways.
And OOo doesn't have anything compatible with Access.
If the OpenOffice.org folks can create an Access-compatible DB and a universal, VisualBasic compatible scripting engine for OOo, Microsoft will be in very deep doo doo.
As it is, Office can do things others just can't.
For the average user, yes. But, OOo Basic is not as feature-rich, cross application compatible, and easy to use as VBA. Unfortunately, VBA is very easy to exploit as compared to OOo Basic.
If you want to pour the power on - easily - you need MS Office. Annoying flaws and all.
does open office run on mac
OpenOffice is the way to go - its word processor is much more stable than Word.