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* Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
> In article <KrGdncFbFefZL3LanZ2dnUVZ_qfinZ2d@giganews.com>,
> Stephan Rose <nospam@spammer.com> wrote:
>> Office?
>>
>> Sure, Ms Office has some neat features. But let's be realistic....who
>> needs a $300-$400 office package in order to write a letter to grandma?
>
> Actually, for home users, Office 2007 retail price, non-upgrade, is
> $149.95 for the software and licenses to use it on three computers,
> which is quite a bit less than $300-400.
>
> Office:mac 2008 is around $130 for a similar deal.
>
> That's a pretty darn good deal for Word and Excel.
Except that those products are hardly a good deal.
> Excel paid for
> itself when I bought my house last year, and used it to get a very
> detailed understanding of my finances and what the consequences of
> various options would be. I could have done the same thing in
> OpenOffice, but much more awkwardly, due to the clumsier UI design and
> poor documentation of OO.
What a stupid thing to say, Tim. For the purpose above, OpenOffice is
quite adequate.
If you don't like OO Calc, then try Gnumeric. It's main developer has
spent a lot of time master Microsoft-type functionality, I guessing.
> Word isn't worth it if you are just writing letters to grandma, but if
> you are writing long, structured, documents, such as specifications or
> project proposals, its document organizational features make it a win.
> Until OpenOffice has a good outliner, it is not a contender.
For you (and, to be fair, some others). I've never used an outliner, ever.
> (The good news is that the OO developers have acknowledged that a good
> outliner is a high priority, and that the navigator stuff it now has is
> not a substitute for this. The bad news is they say it will involve
> some major work, so might take a while).
My take is, don't buy Microsoft software until you find you
absolutely need it. See if open-source apps do what you need, first.
--
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower
others.
-- Bill Gates
> In article <KrGdncFbFefZL3LanZ2dnUVZ_qfinZ2d@giganews.com>,
> Stephan Rose <nospam@spammer.com> wrote:
>> Office?
>>
>> Sure, Ms Office has some neat features. But let's be realistic....who
>> needs a $300-$400 office package in order to write a letter to grandma?
>
> Actually, for home users, Office 2007 retail price, non-upgrade, is
> $149.95 for the software and licenses to use it on three computers,
> which is quite a bit less than $300-400.
>
> Office:mac 2008 is around $130 for a similar deal.
>
> That's a pretty darn good deal for Word and Excel.
Except that those products are hardly a good deal.
> Excel paid for
> itself when I bought my house last year, and used it to get a very
> detailed understanding of my finances and what the consequences of
> various options would be. I could have done the same thing in
> OpenOffice, but much more awkwardly, due to the clumsier UI design and
> poor documentation of OO.
What a stupid thing to say, Tim. For the purpose above, OpenOffice is
quite adequate.
If you don't like OO Calc, then try Gnumeric. It's main developer has
spent a lot of time master Microsoft-type functionality, I guessing.
> Word isn't worth it if you are just writing letters to grandma, but if
> you are writing long, structured, documents, such as specifications or
> project proposals, its document organizational features make it a win.
> Until OpenOffice has a good outliner, it is not a contender.
For you (and, to be fair, some others). I've never used an outliner, ever.
> (The good news is that the OO developers have acknowledged that a good
> outliner is a high priority, and that the navigator stuff it now has is
> not a substitute for this. The bad news is they say it will involve
> some major work, so might take a while).
My take is, don't buy Microsoft software until you find you
absolutely need it. See if open-source apps do what you need, first.
--
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower
others.
-- Bill Gates
