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An 'Outlook Killer' is in devlopment over at OOo -- it will spell the beginning of the end of Microsoft Office
Member Review Also, OOo beat M$ to market with native XML document type support; it is only now becoming available with MS Office System 2003. OOo is actually very simple for even modestly experienced Microsoft Office users to learn quickly and easily and become...
[November 10, 2003, 8:00]
A huge improvement over OOo 1.0
Member Review Much, much better that OOo 1.0, and is every bit as good as MS Office -- but it won't really take hold of the market until version 2.0.
[October 21, 2003, 11:11]
No, OOo is not fully complient with ODF
Talkback OOo is less complient with ODF than MS Office 2007 is with OOXML. You are incorrect. This however is typical rethoric as both are good implemntations of their respective native formats. It is however become somewhat of a battlecry for anti-ooxml...
[February 28, 2008, 16:41]
It has improved from OOo 1.0.2/3
Member Review Good, however it does need an 'Access' database to make it better than M$ Office, and so one can do an ECDL on Linux.
[December 22, 2003, 9:49]
OOo 1.1 is just about ready to take the lead
Member Review The Word import and saving is just about up to snuff. The export as PDF and Flash features are really nice. Takes a bit of getting used to where things are located. Bullet lists and numbered lists are not everything they could be, especially on...
[November 7, 2003, 7:03]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback I've been using OOo for about the last three years now, both at home, and have implimented it for my employees at the office. I finally flushed MS Office in favour of OOo. No, Microsoft, OOo is NOT ten years behind you.
[March 16, 2006, 0:43]
Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
Talkback Personally, I've been using OOo for years. As a result, I was using OOo constantly to, first, restore those documents to readable, and then, to edit them from beginning to end. Now, I'm using betas and DBs of OOo 2.0, and my MSO CDs are gathering...
[October 9, 2005, 13:55]
OpenOffice denies rift with Sun
News Louis Suárez-Potts, the project leader of OpenOffice.org (OOo), has denied reports that Sun should give up control of the open source project it founded. I did not argue in the interview that OpenOffice.org wants Sun to give up control of OOo (not...
[February 10, 2006, 15:45]
Understated, unpretentious, unbeatable!
Member Review I use OOo for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. And it's so nice to sometimes send a document to another party in the OOo native foemats [sxw / twxt, sxc /spreadsheet] and then - when they phone up to say they've got a load of...
[May 19, 2004, 22:22]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback 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. I dropped MS Office for OpenOffice three years ago. It's not like I haven't use MS Office, I have used...
[March 8, 2006, 18:30]
It may be a little rough around the edges here and there, but then Word's not much better!
Member Review OOo is quite a well rounded program. The reliablity is now quite good, and for those who criticize OOo here I say since when were Microsoft programs reliable? I use OOo all of the time, and I have to say it is easier to use.
[November 20, 2003, 13:12]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback MSOffice is focusing in collaboration while OOo is about you and your document. But if you don't use the collaborative features of MSO, OOo Wirter is way ahead on features. It's all true. Perfect PDF export, bullet and list styles, page styles...
[March 9, 2006, 9:29]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback I am using OOo for the past 3 years and I am well satisfied with the product and its productivity. I am really impressed to see the features in the version 2.0 and most of the "REALLY" wanted features are in place in the case of OOo.
[March 10, 2006, 17:21]
OpenOffice developers clear Visual Studio licensing hurdle
News Developers will be able to make a Swahili version of OpenOffice.org (OOo) available on the Microsoft Windows platform, after having a licensed copy of Microsoft Visual Studio donated to them. The Jambo project was only able to produce a version of...
[February 14, 2005, 12:20]
Questions for the community
Talkback [quote] Here an example of why OOo does not comply with ODF spec: link [/quote] For the life of me, I can't see how this equates to “ OOo does not comply with the ODF specification”. First off, I'm no expert on document formats and not qualified...
[February 28, 2008, 23:08]
Better than Microsoft
Member Review I find the less-used tools and options are easier to locate in OOo compared with MS Office because they are more logically named and grouped. I don't believe that there is a problem with speed of opening files -- a .sxw file opens in OOo equally as...
[October 22, 2003, 9:58]
OpenOffice gets major facelift
Talkback Now, two years later (2005), OOo is due for its next facelift. I install OOo on every machine I visit, and leave it there for "recovering broken documents, checking virussed documents, making PDFs, and for the day MS Office breaks.
[March 31, 2005, 2:17]
Office 12 to 'bring XML to the masses'
Talkback StarOffice and OOo have had XML + zip formats for years. A major difference is that OOo's formats are not proprietary, like MS Office 12's. Office 12 is a few years behind OpenOffice.org. So has Koffice.
[June 2, 2005, 12:47]
Don't pirate MS-Office: use ours, says OpenOffice.org
Talkback I've been using OOo for two years. Funny how I get annoyed from time to time when I use MS Office at work, but it lacks a feature from OOo. I use it for the reason that they advertise. I couldn't afford to purchase a complete Office suite for home...
[May 6, 2006, 3:48]
Reinventing the wheel?
Talkback Perhaps I'm missing something, but NeoOffice was created to overcome Ooo's poor support for Mac. Why is so much effort going into a version of Ooo with an Aqua GUI if the guys at NeoOffice seem to have it covered?
[June 13, 2007, 12:29]
