On 3/7/06, Lars D. Noodén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Outlook is bundled, not distributed separately.
not true - http://froogle.google.com/froogle_cluster?q=outlook&pid=1848998505155356156&oid=11546009940788447688&btnG=Search+Froogle&ei=8_ANRNjeN7mwkwGHwKm9Cw&sig2=v8maM721dHz-744DzPjBIA&scoring=mrd *http://tinyurl.com/fwm7s* 90% or more of your non-power > users won't notice the difference with OOo. You are totally dilluding yourself if you belive that. I have a very "non-power user" for a boss, and he freaked out when I let his Powerbook update his iTunes. All it did was change the background color and move a button or two. To be clear - it's the same program - the same major version of the program (something like 5.3 to 5.6 or something like that) - and he called me up and basically accussed me of sabotaging his laptop because "it is different!". You move some people's icons on their desktop, and they can't function - notice, just move them - not change them, not rename them, not delete them - just MOVE them. So you change an entire office from MSO ____ to OOo 2.0 - somebody *will* notice, and a lot more than 10%. They will notice and complain. They will freak out. You can't just go around changing people's computers without letting them know. I'm all for switching to OOo - but you'd better do some training first before you switch someone's office suite. That's my point. The difference for the user between MSO XP or 2003 and > MS 2007 is much larger than between MSO XP or 2003 and OOo 2. I don't agree with this. I know what you mean, but what you said isn't accurate. The difference between MS Word XP and/or MS Word 2003 and OOo 2.0Writer is less than the difference between MS Word XP or 2003 and MS Word 2007. That's a true statement. But because MS Office has Outlook, Access, Frontpage, Publisher, etc. - and OOo doesn't - I'd say the difference is bigger for OOo. If you keep Outlook and just switch MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint to OOo - then you'd have less of a change. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/ Because everyone loves free software!
