On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:49:49 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: > I eagerly await the day when office suites go the way of the dodo. I > think people use them more due to a form of Stockholm Syndrome than > out of any specific need, in most cases.
Would you care to elaborate on that statement? Is your prejudice based on the fact that there is nothing in the open-source community that can even begin to match the robustness and ease of use of MS Office, and so as to simplify this question, I am referring to the latest offering; ie MS Office 10, or do you have some other specific complaint? Unlike your appraisal of the situation, I find that users use office suites, in this case MS Office because it offers the end user what they want. Specifically, an all-in-one application that integrates seamlessly into their home or work environment without the need of additional software. Microsoft's decision to offer MS Office in several flavors was a wise investment. The MS Office Home and Student 2010 can be purchased for $79 from many distributors. I know over a dozen users who have installed this very suite on their home PCs simple because the price+value exceeds anything available anywhere else. -- Jerry ✌ [email protected] Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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