you'll need an office suite that integrates fully with existing office documents. people look for it. sadly, if it was just openoffice then it would be great. but without interoperability with office documents--- oo2 will not be able to stem the tide of pirating microsoft office. given two options--- oo2 and office, people prefer office. ordinary people anyway. i've tried it. presented oo2 to a person needing to type. and their first question is, this thing saves in microsoft word right? or they import an existing word doc--- and find they need to edit it a lot. that sucks, you know for user experience. good enough isn't enough.
the answer is brining office to go to open document format. thats the killer because then, you get microsoft to loosen its grip on the world. pretty soon you'll see oo2 standardize on windows, on linux and on the mac. and maybe just maybe, other innovations can take place in the office suite space anyway. maybe even other office suites taking hold.
features wise oo2 is excellent. except for the interoperability thing-- which isn't exactly their own fault. microsoft makes it darn hard, primarily because they know without that lockin feature, they're in trouble.
for me odf is the way to go--- spurs innovation and interoperability across platforms.
cheers
On 8/22/06, Tito Mari Francis Escaño <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One word: VAPORWARE
Why pine for the days that Microsoft will port MS Office to Linux when
you can use OpenOffice?
I believe self-respecting, freedom loving, cost-conscious and
ethically upright FOSS advocates and computer users would and should
practice what they preach when all they have to do is use the PC for
word processing, spreadsheet and presentations.
On 8/19/06, Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
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> Tom Sanders at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, vnunet.com 18 Aug 2006
> Microsoft will release a version of Office to run on Linux within the "next
> couple of years", according to the chief executive of the Open Source
> Development Lab (OSDL).
>
> Read the details here:
> .
> http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2162570/microsoft-office-linux
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> PMana
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