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Story: Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
"the most negative comment I recall them saying was that the thesaurus is a US English version and not UK. "
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Story: Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
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as someone once said he would say that
would not h... alan denholm -
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 -
I've not downloaded OpenOffice but I am aware that... Richard Thorne -
A few notes: The UK thesaurus thing seems to... Sam Vere -
"the most negative comment I recall them sayi... Anonymous -
I dropped MS Office for OpenOffice three years ago... Olavi Petri -
Collaboration:
I know of at least one documentatio... Yagotta B. Kidding -
If this is true (which I dispute) maybe OOo s... Andrew Meredith -
If MSOffice is so far ahead, why are its menus sti... Anonymous -
It's all true.
MSOffice is focusing in collab... Javier -
One would expect Microsoft to say that. They have... Robert Burling -
10 years of additional bombast and silly entertain... Rolf Scherzinger -
Oh yeah, if M$ Office is so good, why it has... KrAzY_BoY -
Absolutely true!
Look, if all you care a... Steve Thompson -
I am using OOo for the past 3 years and I am well... S. Rathinagiri -
answering to: Steve Thompson
Frankly, I real... Mitch 74 -
I use OOo daily, but there are some areas where it... Tom -
A lot of large corporates still use Office 20... dukeinlondon -
I've been using OOo for about the last t... Shadow Systems -
Open office is really good. The bes... Amol -
Regarding Tom's comment on Num... Ian Edwards -
Open Office doesn't do everything that MS office d... John Bates



