It has never ceased to amaze me how a select few individuals in key
positions in corporations are permitted to form a self-sustaining
interlocked stance on the use of MS Office suite due to their inability
to accept they are able learn other ways of conducting business.
MS Office has been constructed to permeate the worlds major corporations
because, among other things, it offers this group an easy transition
from one company to another. I suspect their main selling point in
interviews is that, 'yes' they know how to use Outlook to send email and
use its calendar to keep track of which meeting they are supposed to be
in next.
When consulting on available options they always balk at implementation
of more cost effective (read: FREE) platforms and when doing so whine,
'well the other guys all use it'. Of course as they actually voice it
in terms like, 'all our business associates use it therefore we must as
well'. Self-supporting hogwash. Personally, I stepped away from Office
because, when testing Thunderbird ten years ago, found emails deleted in
Outlook, were never actually removed from the PST file. They were
simply hidden from the User.
I suspect those at the executive level, like so many others, are simply
reluctant to try a new platform out of fear they won't be able to
understand how to use it. Mentality akin to what makes children check
under the bed for monsters. Fear.
As for Microsoft, if they lost the strangle hold they have gained
through the Office Suite of applications. They very well may tumble from
the lofty heights and actually have to produce a competitive product.
They don't have to do so with their operating systems because of the
back room deals made with PC makers by which they enforce their own rule
of, 'a PC has to come with an Operating System'.
So my reply is tethered properly to this threads topic: Yes, Libre
Office can be installed on an External Drive. The folks at
PortableApps.com have two 'LibreOffice Portable' packages available.
One for English only (120mb DL, 260-413mb installed) and one for all
languages (145mb DL, 516-776mb installed). Whose features are described
in part as:
LibreOffice Portable is a full-featured office suite that's compatible
with Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Lotus and other office
applications. It's easy-to-use and feature-rich, performing nearly all
of the functions you'd expect in an office suite, but at no cost.
They also offer support on how to copy your local LO settings to LO
Portable. It requires Users find and copy: /C:\Documents and
Settings\[user]\Application Data\LibreOffice\/ to the
LibreOfficePortable\Data\settings\ directory. So the difficulty level
requires one find the \LO\data folder on the external drive and perform
a copy function.
On 9/8/2011 1:55 AM, Bruce Carlson wrote:
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From: At0mic [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2011 3:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an
external drive. ?
I notice some people are talking about Thunderbird and other alternatives
to Outlook. I should probably remind some people that Outlook is not just a
mail client. It has a Calendar, Tasks manager, voting system, and>a few
other titbits that all exist within the same application which gives it a
very high level of integration. The problem is that this integration is very
important for a lot of people in the corporate world, and an ad hoc
bundling of various applications to do the same stuff but not quite as well
integrated might not sit well with some people, particularly if you can't
give the same level of functionality.
Outlook is what it is not just for the email side of things.
This is precisely why outlook is the only MS application I have installed on
my work machines. Apart from development environments, VS 2003,2005,2008&
2010 and what comes bundled with windows stupid .... I mean windows 7. Most
of which I don't use anyway.
With the entire company using an MS exchange server and sharing calendars
and contacts I'm forced to use outlook. Let's face it, not everything
microsoft do is bad. Just most things.
The problems with Microsoft come when you have bulk licencing agreements and
are forced to install their products to comply with their licences. Then
management says "We're paying for the licence, we may as well use it." This
makes change very difficult.
Cheers,
>From
Bruce Carlson.
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