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Microsoft posts video of customers criticizing OpenOffice
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New #41
I use OO at home on all three machines and MS office at work. I have had no issues between the two. I can say if MS would lower the price I would switch. However if I can have an office suite on three machine for $0.00 and it does what we need it to do (My wife nor I are power users) then why would I spend $360.00 to have MS office on my desktop, her desktop and our laptop? Kinda steap to me, maybe a family pack of Office would make sence to me, 3 machines for one low price. MS has always made the Open source is crap argument, so this is not suprising!
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New #42
Microsoft can't even stand the idea of competition. MSOffice is not a better product simply because Microsoft has created a near monopoly on office software. If it were a good product, sold solely by it's value & the merit of its features, they wouldn't need to create proprietary document formats. Instead it's preloaded on nearly every computer sold, with the customer having virtually no choice but to use it or do without
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New #43
Open Office wont cut it in the corporate world. Its just fine for personal use though.
One thing to understand here is that OO i believe is intended to be for primarily home use. Where as Microsoft office is more geared for a business environment. For the exception of Office basic maybe.Last edited by Bootz; 19 Oct 2010 at 15:11.
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New #44
They can state that until they're blue in the face that doesn't make it true.MS has always made the Open source is crap argument
Alone the fact that Microsoft feels intimidated by open source programs contradicts their statement
Just another empty CEO blubber. (blah blah)
Like I said before: for what I have to do in the office world (at home) OO is fully sufficient.
Who can't say that...well just go ahead and buy the MS-Suite.
It's just something everybody has to decide for themselves.
-DG
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New #45
They can state that until they're blue in the face that doesn't make it true.MS has always made the Open source is crap argument
Alone the fact that Microsoft feels intimidated by open source programs contradicts their statement
Just another empty CEO blubber. (blah blah)
Like I said before: for what I have to do in the office world (at home) OO is fully sufficient.
Who can't say that...well just go ahead and buy the MS-Suite.
It's just something everybody has to decide for themselves.
-DG
Couldn't agree more with you. Most of the software I use is open source. Does a fine job too and saves me some cash. Yeah some have issues, but I didn't pay for it so I can't really complain :) MS is scared as they should be, consumers are getting smarter everyday and realizing overpriced software can be replaced by a cheaper if not free alternitive. I have even done the donate via paypal to opensource program writers because I use the product alot, Pay what you can/feel it is worth is a scary option to big corporations......all of them.
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New #46
Anyone who says that OO is not good enough for the office environment is clearly judging the usefulness of a product by their own personal choices not fact. The real fact is that 95% or more of all documents produced in a typical office (even IT companies) are of the basic type where ".doc" or ".xls" will suffice and yes OO can be set to use these formats as their default since Microsoft refuses to recognize,incorporate or integrate ODF as a file format in Office. Instead of Paint how many of us are using Paint.NET, instead of Notepad how many are using Notepad++.
For the very few people who actually NEED MS office then there is no easy alternative, however if that 95%+ used OO then there would be no inconsistent conversion of important documents, so you could make the argument that Microsoft should be making their product to work with OO instead of the other way around.
Microsoft office is a choice not a natural law. There is ALWAYS a different way to accomplish the task without a specific product of you simply look. This is the essence of Information Technology and we all know it. Anything else is data entry.
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New #47
I use neither Office programs. I do wonder why corporation all over the world use Microsoft Office that comes with a healthy price. If a free Office program worked just as well and cost nothing those penny pinching corporation would use the free Office. Microsoft is in the business of creating programs for sale and they sell a lot of them. If I started a new business tomorrow I would choose Microsoft Office. That would allow me to do business with other businesses without jumping through hoops. Most people who would be hired have worked with M/S Office and are trained. Saving a ton of money and time. Loosing one sale or contract do to the translation between Open Office and Microsoft Office would cost many times more than the price of Microsoft Office. It's not worth taking the chance.
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New #48
And now you know why OO has such a small market. You just made the Microsoft case despite the fact that OO would probably do everything you need an office app to do. Couple that with the Student discounts, employee share programs, and just plain lack of knowledge about OO with the general Best Buy computer buyer and you can see why it hasn't taken off.
People are inherently lazy and do not want to invest the time and effort to learn a different way to do things than they have historically done...What was good enough in Win98 is good enough for Win7, especially when someone else maintains the pc.
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I know our company uses MS office simply because it is rolled into the cost of the OS for all the systems, they get a huge discount on it simply because of the shear volume of PC's they have. This was reaon given to me when I asked the head IT guy here. The savings after training on OO plus the price discount on MS Ofiice make it not worth the switch.
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