To Quote: " It's easy to think we're all just renters in a Microsoft world. Only without rent control. But that's just not true. There's an alternative to /Microsoft Office,/ and it doesn't require you to sacrifice compatibility with ubiquitous /Office/ documents. And it's constantly improving and evolving." "The suite compares favorably with /Microsoft Office/ circa 1998, before Microsoft started adding hundreds of dubious new features. While we miss a couple of those advanced features -- the format painter is an all-time favorite in the /MaximumPC/ offices -- many of them can be added to /OpenOffice.org/ with small plugins.
The stripped-down version of /Microsoft Office 2003/ -- you know, the one that includes only /Outlook, Excel, Word, /and/ PowerPoint -- /costs $400! Doesn't really seem like a very good deal, does it? If you can live without /Outlook/, you'll be astounded at how great a free office suite can be."
This is particularly high praise when you know what really tough critics the editors at /MaximumPC/ are. They don't think that any PC below 3 GHz or the AMD equivalent is even worth sitting down at.
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