Chad Smith wrote:
Going along with your "you have to install Outlook" line of reasoning - you have to install *Java* for the Database to work.
No you don't. You can use dBase without Java or any addons.
It seems to me that MSO has more includes than OOo, once you include Outlook, which is a part of MSO, and automagically installed as Outlook Express on every version of Windows on earth. You get 6 includes for MSO, and only 5 includes on OOo.
I think that just blindly doing a feature count is really stupid.
If you were to go with the more powerful Professional edition of MSO, then OOo would lose hands down.
Depends on your criteria. For example: I want to run an office suite on Linux. OOo gives me many features on Linux; MS Office gives me 0 (since it won't install).
Likewise, OOo provides several other features that are important to me and MS Office doesn't have, or has but they work less reliably.
I have no doubt that for many people, MS Office wins hands down. Saying that one is definitely better than the other in all scenarios is plain dumb.
If you want to make OOo look good, talk about its strengths, like *PRICE* and cross-platformness, and alterablity, and open licensing, and - if you must - open standards. But don't try to do a point-for-point includes of functionality where MSO is the *clear* winner.
Depending on what features you need. Maybe you need an office suite that includes vector graphics, maybe you want an office suite with reliable master documents, maybe you want an office suite with a navigator.
Saying that MSO beats OOo on a point-for-point comparison is dumb (and saying the converse is dumb too).
Look, in my case, if OOo and MSO had the same license, came from the same people, had the same cost and ran on the same platforms, I would still picl OOo because for me it is better.
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