...and what is up with the article referring to Corel as 'dirt cheap'?
According to the link they provide, it's $270. Dirt cheap for a car,
maybe. MS Office 2007 Standard is $350.
And does anyone else feel like Outlook is out of place in an office
suite? Every other app is about creating documents or content, and
then this one is for reading and managing email messages. Seems random
to me.
On 5/16/07, Joe Fruchey <jfruchey at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would never say that OOo is better than MSO. I don't believe that
> OOo is any lighter than MSO; in fact, since OOo is closer,
> feature-wise to Office97, one could argue that OOo is far more
> bloated. ("One", in this instance, would not be me. ;))
>
> Now, I'm not dogging OOo one bit. In fact, I love it. I use it all the
> time. My wife will often call to me from the other room, "How do you
> do this in Word?" My inevitable response is, "Use OpenOffice, then ask
> me again!"
>
> One killer feature of OOo for me... My wife taught high school this
> year. Never again, but that's another story. Anyhow, I helped her make
> lots of little multiple-choice quizzes throughout the year. In Word, I
> was copying and pasting to randomize the answers. Either that, or I
> had to do it as I typed. When I started doing it in OOo Writer, I
> discovered that Ctrl-up and down reordered list items. Miraculous.
> Suddenly I didn't dread making those tests.
>
> Some things just make more sense to me. Format -> Document rather than
> File -> Page setup. And while some people hate the word completion, I
> like it. With vocabulary words like indubitably, only having to type
> it fully once was kinda nice.
>
> One thing that FLOSS apps are always way behind on is UI. If you want
> to convert users and cut into MSO's userbase, you have to be pretty.
> People like pretty. People will give their money to a pretty thief
> before an honest ugly fellow.
>
> As far as Google Docs, I used Writely when it came out two years or so
> ago, and I was impressed. They even added a few new features after the
> Google acquisition. If I'm typing a letter, or maybe a blog post, it'd
> be great. I tried to create the aforementioned quizzes, though, but
> with very few list options, it was futile.
>
> MSO will also always kill OOo in the collaboration arena. That's their
> forte, and they do it well. Expensive and proprietary, but well.
>
> So there are my thoughts.
>
> Joe
>
