Free Office

tw33k · 06 Apr 2010

Microsoft's big gamble with free Office

Lomai · 06 Apr 2010

Thanks tw33k.
Sounds good, but does the average user need anything better than the starter edition?

Regards

si8mon · 06 Apr 2010

Lomai said:

Thanks tw33k.
Sounds good, but does the average user need anything better than the starter edition?

Regards

PowerPoint is the main only application thats missing from the starter addition. But it's an important one and what are the "slimed down" versions of Word and Excel missing?

Lomai · 06 Apr 2010

si8mon said:

Lomai said:

Thanks tw33k.
Sounds good, but does the average user need anything better than the starter edition?

Regards

PowerPoint is the main only application thats missing from the starter addition. But it's an important one and what are the "slimed down" versions of Word and Excel missing?

Forgot about that one - especially with uni and stuff.

Other than that, what percentage of functionality do average users utilize within the office suite?

not so gray matter · 06 Apr 2010

Why not just hop on the OpenOffice bangwagon?

http://why.openoffice.org/why_great.html

pparks1 · 06 Apr 2010

notsograymatter said:

Why not just hop on the OpenOffice bangwagon?

why: Why OpenOffice.org

I'm a pretty low level user of the office style applications myself....and I switched over to Open Office a few years ago as I wasn't willing to pay for Microsoft Office at home and I haven't had any real problems at all. If there was a missing feature I could just use the copy of MS Office on my work laptop...but this really hasn't been an issue for me.