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Story: Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Posted by: Mitch 74 (Monday 13 March 2006, 10:06 AM)
answering to: Steve Thompson
Frankly, I really wanted to crash my thesis, to spend hours applying patches, verifying styles, headings, bullets, numbering and to spend eons finding a format allowing me to print my thesis the way I had it looking on screen, or just enjoy having it printed completely out of whack - if I could open the file without finding it corrupted.
Frankly, nothing had me more delighted than seeing the 450 pages making up my thesis + appendices going down in a cloud of binary nonsense.
And I'm just oh so in love with Clippy, his out-of-context questions, his cute resources-consuming animations and his long shutdown sequence!
So I had to commit to the unthinkable, and work on an office suite that didn't crash, that dealt with styles correctly, that could save in files that could be opened later, that didn't mess with the positioning of my graphics, screen captures and that could export in a format I could print unchanged with a far away printer without having to reformat the whole document before clicking on the 'print' icon.
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Story: Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
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as someone once said he would say that
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I've been using OO for about 6 months now and... Matt Webber -
As a user of OpenOffice for 12 months (o... Ian Edwards -
I find that I neither use nor want... Doug
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I've not downloaded OpenOffice but I am aware that... Richard Thorne
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A few notes: The UK thesaurus thing seems to... Sam Vere
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"the most negative comment I recall them sayi... Anonymous
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I dropped MS Office for OpenOffice three years ago... Olavi Petri
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Collaboration:
I know of at least one documentatio... Yagotta B. Kidding
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If this is true (which I dispute) maybe OOo s... Andrew Meredith
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If MSOffice is so far ahead, why are its menus sti... Anonymous
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It's all true.
MSOffice is focusing in collab... Javier
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One would expect Microsoft to say that. They have... Robert Burling
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10 years of additional bombast and silly entertain... Rolf Scherzinger
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Oh yeah, if M$ Office is so good, why it has... KrAzY_BoY
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Absolutely true!
Look, if all you care a... Steve Thompson
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I am using OOo for the past 3 years and I am well... S. Rathinagiri
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answering to: Steve Thompson
Frankly, I real... Mitch 74 -
I use OOo daily, but there are some areas where it... Tom
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A lot of large corporates still use Office 20... dukeinlondon
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I've been using OOo for about the last t... Shadow Systems
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Open office is really good. The bes... Amol
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Regarding Tom's comment on Num... Ian Edwards
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Open Office doesn't do everything that MS office d... John Bates
