On 3/9/05 8:43 PM, "Jacqueline McNally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thanks for this Gavin. It is well worth a look before it disappears out > of cache. > > The screenshots definitely look very different to my not very current > version of MS Office. If anything, they are busy and complicated. I can > understand why people may try an alternative product when the "same" > newer version of the product is so radically different. It certainly > puts into perspective the feedback of the noted differences between OOo > 1.1.x and 2.0 Beta. > > Certainly, MSFT are targetting enterprise customers with a lot of > related and tentacled products. But you do need fairly recent hardware > and the MS Windows OS to run the new office offering. > > I think it would be a good exercise to document OOo features that are > available now. They work cross-platform and on older hardware and from > MS Windows 98 versions specifically. These would be important to note > along the lines of why wait for Office 12 :) Well, screenshots often look pretty busy IMO, but it would definitely be a mistake to underestimate the product. The funny thing is that if MS wasn't so tied to their Windows monopoly they could probably sell a lot more copies of a cross platform information sharing solution. I think some of the ideas are pretty neat, and useful - but so few IT people are willing to tie themselves down to MS everywhere nowadays. I think in general the MS Office products give the OO developers a nice competitive target. I love the user interface on the Mac version, and I think the collaboration features on the Windows version are a nice idea (not requiring infrastructure investment for it would be nice - peer to peer could work pretty well in this context). Anyway, Im babbling, its late - but I think the point is that knowing Office well (especially future directions) can only help the marketing team. Microsoft must spend some kind of money figuring out how to sell their product :) Tony --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
