In case some of you don't get Network Computing, this is one of the views from the corporate world on choices to MS Office. It's starting to look positive.
Microsoft Office 2007 has hit the virtual shelves--got your pen and checkbook ready? Or maybe you're searching for an alternative. If this sounds like *your* enterprise, we've got some help for you. Contributing editor Jonathan Feldman evaluates Office alternatives--including OpenOffice, StarOffice Evolution and the Thunderbird messaging client--and in our lead feature provides a detailed road map for leaving Microsoft's clutches. Plenty of options abound, including such recently announced or delivered MS Office alternatives as IBM Open Client, Google Apps and Open/StarOffice. Meanwhile, back in December we provided an in-depth, visual tour of the new Microsoft Office 2007, in case you remain on the office upgrade path. Curious what all these office-alternative apps look like? Worried that an alternative word processor might look more like XyWrite than Word? Then walk through our visual tour and online quiz of Office alternatives. You might not be able to tell the apps apart without a scorecard. Start here with Word Processors then move quickly through spreadsheets, calendars, e-mail clients and presentation software. Compare the two screen shots and see if you can tell whether they are from Microsoft Office or an open-source alternative. Mouse over the hidden answer to see if you were right. Let us know how you do. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
