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Story: Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice

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Posted by: Olavi Petri (Wednesday 8 March 2006, 7:30 PM)

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I dropped MS Office for OpenOffice three years ago. OOo is better flat out. I had OpenOffice and StarOffice only as an experiment untill OOo version 1.1, since that point it meets my needs better. It's not like I haven't use MS Office, I have used nearly all versions since the mid-1980's.

The functionality, stability and ease of use beat MS Office.
Gravy: It's cross platform and now uses open formats. MS will never be crossplatform any time in the forseeable future and by all actions and statements remain strongly committed to closed formats, even if they have to disguise them by dressing them up in XML.

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Story: Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice

  1. as someone once said he would say that would not h... alan denholm
  2. I've been using OO for about 6 months now and... Matt Webber
  3. As a user of OpenOffice for 12 months (o... Ian Edwards
  4. I find that I neither use nor want... Doug
  5. I've not downloaded OpenOffice but I am aware that... Richard Thorne
  6. A few notes: The UK thesaurus thing seems to... Sam Vere
  7. "the most negative comment I recall them sayi... Anonymous
  8. I dropped MS Office for OpenOffice three years ago... Olavi Petri
  9. Collaboration: I know of at least one documentatio... Yagotta B. Kidding
  10. If this is true (which I dispute) maybe OOo s... Andrew Meredith
  11. If MSOffice is so far ahead, why are its menus sti... Anonymous
  12. It's all true. MSOffice is focusing in collab... Javier
  13. One would expect Microsoft to say that. They have... Robert Burling
  14. 10 years of additional bombast and silly entertain... Rolf Scherzinger
  15. Oh yeah, if M$ Office is so good, why it has... KrAzY_BoY
  16. Absolutely true! Look, if all you care a... Steve Thompson
  17. I am using OOo for the past 3 years and I am well... S. Rathinagiri
  18. answering to: Steve Thompson Frankly, I real... Mitch 74
  19. I use OOo daily, but there are some areas where it... Tom
  20. A lot of large corporates still use Office 20... dukeinlondon
  21. I've been using OOo for about the last t... Shadow Systems
  22. Open office is really good. The bes... Amol
  23. Regarding Tom's comment on Num... Ian Edwards
  24. Open Office doesn't do everything that MS office d... John Bates

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