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Story: Closing the Office door on Microsoft

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Personally I have used Microsoft Office Suite 2000 and I don't see a need for it compared to Open Source Office Suites. How many people actually use more than 15 percent of the functionality in MS Office Suites? Fact is how many know how to setup even a Access Database? I don't think I would miss one bit of Microsoft Outlook seeing that my habits are such that I only use a small percentage of it. Not to forget mentioning other apps are more secure then Outlook, but we won’t go there.

However Open Office meets the majority of the needs out there and the fact is if I was going to design a 4-color brochure, I definitely wouldn't use Microsoft Word, however MS Publisher is ok and PageMaker is better!

I think what I get tired of, is the complaining about products when in actuality if you look at what the needs are. I think more people are willing to try something that is going to accomplish the same thing that can save them money, time, energy and stimulate the mind.

On another note, K office in KDE is just as comparable to MS Office. K-Word is excellent and appears to be even easier than MS Word that I have used for a few years. But over the past three years I haven’t seen a single article written about K-office in KDE compared to MS Office.

In summary most people wouldn’t even miss MS Office if they were in another environment and the change might even stimulate more productivity that encourages learning then just grow in complacency and laziness.

MDW

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