 Open Office Vs Microsoft, So thinking of dumping Microsoft Office? |
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 Feb 5 2005, 03:34 PM
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POWERED BY LINUX!  Group: Members Posts: 606 Joined: 11-July 04 From: Toronto, Canada Member No.: 78 myCENT:17.41  |
I'm happily using OpenOffice on my SUSE Linux 9.2!
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Feb 6 2005, 12:09 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 101 Joined: 3-December 04 Member No.: 2,521 |
I've never thought about it until now, but I guess it's going to become pretty important in the future to have some form of standard for documents, spreadsheets, etc. It would hopefully be in XML and the suite app that opens it would interpret it. Would make a lot of sense ... not sure, there may be some work going on for this now.
In a few years, it'd be nice to see other companies being able to really compete with Microsoft ... they've sucked the blood out of too many companies and people. I shouldn't be talking like this, as I hold some M$ stock ... but they're not going anywhere either. |
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Feb 6 2005, 05:05 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 423 Joined: 13-July 04 Member No.: 87 |
Open Office as cool. The best part is that it is free. It is also a very small download as compared to Microsoft's Office suite. But as it goes, Open Office is definitly not as powerful as Microsoft's. Open Office still needs a lot of improvements and new features before it goes main stream.
-Shackman This post has been edited by Shackman: Feb 6 2005, 05:06 AM |
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Feb 6 2005, 08:26 PM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 29 Joined: 6-February 05 From: Houston, Texas Member No.: 3,634 |
I think OpenOffice is great too. There are cons too though. Like I think it seems slower than Microsoft office on my comp. It takes a while for me to open it up. Do you guys experience this problem? BTW I was wondering how I can get rid of that border around my document when I open up writer. I also agree with shackman. Open Office still needs a lot of features even though it is improving all the time.
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Feb 6 2005, 08:40 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 372 Joined: 14-October 04 Member No.: 1,736 myCENT:ZERO |
It's also slow on my computer. It takes a while to open documents. I also didn't know it had a pdf maker, and all that...Maybe I should look at it more. Maybe if I do, I'll find even more stuff. Well, it is FREE, so don't expect too many features for it. I'd still rather use it than MS Word, though. I hate Word (Don't know why, I just do).
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Feb 6 2005, 08:52 PM
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POWERED BY LINUX! Group: Members Posts: 606 Joined: 11-July 04 From: Toronto, Canada Member No.: 78 myCENT:17.41 |
It runs fast and swift on Linux, it takes only 1 minute of loading.
OpenOffice 1.1.3 (KDE version) SuSE Linux 9.2 (kernel-2.6.8-default) xboxrulz |
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Feb 6 2005, 11:17 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 378 Joined: 8-January 05 Member No.: 3,174 |
QUOTE(xboxrulz @ Feb 6 2005, 09:52 PM) [OpenOffice] runs fast and swift on Linux, it takes only 1 minute of loading. One minute? oO There are very few applications I will allow to take one minute to load, and a word processing application is definitely not among them. |
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Apr 29 2005, 11:35 PM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 516 Joined: 29-April 05 From: Canada Eh?!? Member No.: 6,408 |
I primarly use MS office simply because that is what I started using. I hear that the new version will have much better support for shapes and microsoft in general. I do have OOo installed and use it on the linux computers at school. It is quite slow, that I must say. I like the equation editor in OOo, something I don't think is availiable in MS yet (correct me if I'm wrong)
As far as a standard file format appeatrly OOo 2.0 used the open document format rather then the sx* format. And I believe that it is XML based. I would (and have) recomend it to friends who can't/don't have the ability to use MS office. Even if something happens to OOo in the next few years, it has definatly started to make MS sweat, just like the Gmail in the world of email! |
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Apr 30 2005, 03:23 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 150 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 4,988 |
I do hear that Open Office is a really neat Office suite. But I think I will stick with Microsoft Office because it took me a really long time for me to learn all of the features that it offers.
But I will try Open Office, and see what it offers, from the looks of it, it seems like people enjoy using Open Office. |
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