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| Thread ID: 90609 | 2008-06-09 13:53:00 | Open Office - Good Enough ? | learning (5137) | PC World Chat |
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| 676865 | 2008-06-11 06:57:00 | The great thing about OOo is that you can try it as it is free . If you don't like it, you can try/buy something else . I avoid using MS Office if I can but sometimes you can't avoid it e . g . at work . Although I have to say that OOo is great for our testing pc's which you can't justify a MS Office licence for, but you can still read/write Office documents :thumbs: . Yes, it is slower to load that MS Office but it is multiplatform (yes it IS noticably slower) . It does 70% of what MS Word or MS Excel does which is plenty . Most home users will find OOo is perfectly adequate for their use (probably 70% for business users too) . Power users tend to require Office . I can't remember OOo crashing on me . What I find interesting is that most home users prefer to run a pirated copy of Office (if you can with activation these days) rather than a copy of OOo because Office is THE office suite . "Thats what everyone uses these days" I'm sure that the OOo interface is not exactly the same as Office as they didn't want to risk any long protracted law suites with Microsoft (if you can't kill them, you can waste time and money with the courts) . And OOo is based on a commercial product . Its Sun StarOffice which has support if you want it and includes extras which you don't get with the open source version . |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 676866 | 2008-06-11 07:06:00 | You get what u pay for . I'm sorry, but that logic doesn't work for open source . Many open source products are quality (ok, theres also alot of rubbish . . . ) and are as good as, if not better than proprietry products . The internet still mainly runs on open source software which is generally free (open source software is not free software), and thats because there are reliable open source products out there . |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 676867 | 2008-06-11 07:07:00 | The great thing about OOo is that you can try it as it is free . If you don't like it, you can try/buy something else . I avoid using MS Office if I can but sometimes you can't avoid it e . g . at work . Although I have to say that OOo is great for our testing pc's which you can't justify a MS Office licence for, but you can still read/write Office documents :thumbs: . Yes, it is slower to load that MS Office but it is multiplatform (yes it IS noticably slower) . It does 70% of what MS Word or MS Excel does which is plenty . Most home users will find OOo is perfectly adequate for their use (probably 70% for business users too) . Power users tend to require Office . I can't remember OOo crashing on me . What I find interesting is that most home users prefer to run a pirated copy of Office (if you can with activation these days) rather than a copy of OOo because Office is THE office suite . "Thats what everyone uses these days" I'm sure that the OOo interface is not exactly the same as Office as they didn't want to risk any long protracted law suites with Microsoft (if you can't kill them, you can waste time and money with the courts) . And OOo is based on a commercial product . Its Sun StarOffice which has support if you want it and includes extras which you don't get with the open source version . |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 676868 | 2008-06-11 08:41:00 | Whoa, we can call this the "dolby digital" page. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 676869 | 2008-06-11 08:48:00 | The great thing about OOo is that you can try it as it is free. If you don't like it, you can try/buy something else Most Office suites do the same - MS office - 60 Day free trial (us7.trymicrosoftoffice.com) Ability office has 10 days from memory. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 676870 | 2008-06-11 09:33:00 | If you know someone at University, they could get you a free (from MSDNAA) version of Office 2003 or Office 2007 from a Uni software shop. Not sure if that is technically legal but if you have someone in your family... |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 676871 | 2008-06-11 12:34:00 | I really love the "free" word. It seems to pop up in this site very often for some reason. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 676872 | 2008-06-11 12:45:00 | And whats wrong with that? Free is bad now? |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 676873 | 2008-06-13 04:59:00 | Whoa, we can call this the "dolby digital" page. Ooops, double post... :xmouth: |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 676874 | 2008-06-13 05:03:00 | And whats wrong with that? Free is bad now? No Open Source is bad... Microsoft can't buy it out and kill it :D |
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