--- Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2004, at 3:56 PM, Andy G wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:18:56 -0000, David P > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I'm trying to "de-Microsoft" my Mac... > > > > > > Ok - I'm going to stick my neck out here, I foretell much sucking > of > > breath and muttering in the dark corners of the [PCI] list but to > Hell > > with it ;) > > > > I'm a firm believer in using the best application for the job. > > If this means using an M$ app then so be it. > > As far as I'm concerned one of the best things that M$ has ever > done is > > the Office suite. > > I'm not talking the extended bloatware that the new Office 11 has > > > become > > but the key apps - Excel, Powerpoint, Word & Outlook. > > In general Office is a prime example of why Monopolies Are Bad. > > It is a bloated, buggy, low quality product that gets along in the > market only because people are scared to change, and because of > that it > has no real competition anymore. Were there real competition I > suspect > it would be very, very good. Microsoft *used* to be able to do > that. > > Excel, alone, rocks (and remember, it was the spreadsheet that > accountants were buying Macs to get back when it was Mac only) and > is, > imo, the only really 'top of it's class' application Microsoft has > done > for the Mac (or the PC for that matter), but it's bloating out > pretty > fast. > > It's too bad Apple dumped Resolve; that was good spreadsheet app; I > > have an old copy I still use it on my laptop. > > Word is adequate (imo Word 3 was the high point of that app as a > fast, > intuitive and usable word processor). > > Again, there aren't real competitors out there. > > People use Word, not because Word is all that great, but because > 'everybody else has it'. (If only Novell hadn't completely borked > Word > Perfect, then sold it to the soulless heathens at Corel to die a > lingering death, we might still have some competition for Word.) > Back > when Word and WordPerfect were going 'mano a mano', both companies > were > forced to make their products better, not just bigger. > > I cannot count the number of graduate students who have come to us, > > sometimes in tears, because Word decided to barf all over their > thesis > or dissertation because Word is not meant for long, complex > documents. > > Powerpoint sucks giant green donkey ones. > > Keynote is so much better than Powerpoint it's not even funny. Just > > about anything is so much better than Powerpoint it's not funny. > > Crayons on a white board are better. > > Powerpoint is an app that's been 'enhanced' by a lodge brother with > a > case of the Handyman's secret weapon. > > Powerpoint is the picture in the dictionary next to the word > "kludge". > > Powerpoint still exists only because MS has driven any other > competitor > out of business. I suspect that the dotcom crash wasn't caused by > anything other than continual exposure to Powerpoint sapping the > minds > of businessmen. > > Milk sours when exposed to Powerpoint, and small children scream in > > terror. > > I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that Powerpoint has some > hand in > global warming, the heartbreak of psoriasis, the break-up of the > Beatles and the death of Elvis. (yes, decades before it even > existed it > was extending it's evil influence over the world!) > > (you might have gotten the impression that I don't like that > program > very much, and you would be correct...) > > When Open Office finally gets ported to the Mac, it's should be a > serious contender to MS Office. > > It won't. of course. On the PC the main reason people don't switch > is > that 'It's not MS Office.' and they're terrified of changing; I > expect > nothing more of the Mac market, even though 98% of then could > switch > and almost never notice it. > > But it's free, it's *very* powerful and it even has stuff that > Office > doesn't, like a decent drawing application, and PDF output without > paying for Adobe Acrobat. > > (and it doesn't eat it's own files like Office does, and even opens > > files Office cannot, like the aforementioned self-eaten files) Why > big > corporations aren't telling MS to stuff it and going for the free > alternative, I have no clue. Perhaps it's all that exposure to > Powerpoint presentations... > > Outpuke, is, well Outpuke. The application that has facilitated a > thousand viruses onto the world gets no quarter from me. > > (And don't EVEN get me started on Access...trust me, it's truly a > blessing that MS hasn't ported that obscenity to the Mac.)
There are half full glasses, half empty glasses and then in your world the glass is broken. Open Office is a great Office suite that is free. http://www.openoffice.org/ and for Mac OSX it's already been ported http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html A the sweet world if open source.......... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
