OpenOffice separating itself from Oracle and going it's separate way

fseal said:

Office 10 is still way too new for much penetration.

Comments about using a simple office suite and OO being a perfect fit are true if you are merely using it by yourself.

But if you are required to submit documents in any MS office formats like docx etc then you are better off having compatible software rather than put up with the formatting glitches of conversions between suites.

So anyone needing wide ranging compatibility would be better served by MS office (regardless of price).

If you were merely writing stuff for yourself or to print out at home and work out simple finances in a spreadsheet OR if you happen to work somplace that has standardized on OpenOffice.org then that makes more sense...

In my circles I see about 95% MS office use at work and at home. Unless you are a starving student, the low cost suites for MS office are as resonable as anything assuming your not someone that doen;t belive that software should ever cost money :)

I feel like a Ludite as I'm still using Office 2003. It does what I want and the 2010 trial looked more like a game than serious business software.

I won't ever touch OpenOffice untill they implement the Ribbon UI. The menus and toolbars are fugly and counter-productive. Plus OneNote 2010 is the greatest software ever.

Open office is leaving Oracle? oO

I thought both the menus and the ribbon were equally difficult when trying to find things. I would have to spend a few minutes sorting through the menus or through the ribbon options. However, since the ribbon is more visually attractive, I would consider it superior.

Office XP pro used what? Maybe 400MB HDD space? A full install of Office 2010 takes just under 2GB HDD space to perform the exact same functions, is harder to use, and on a system with anything less than 1 GB RAM, a SATA HDD and a dual core CPU, is barely functional.