Chad Smith wrote:
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, your comments here are exactly what I was getting at before
about people losing productivity and wanting their old product back.
You put it in words that I cannot.
On a similar note to this thread,this is posted on slashdot.
The Trouble With Software Upgrades
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/07/169250
How many times have a simple upgrade affected the operation of a
computer. Now this is no simple upgrade but a major reworking of how
the software even works. That could be a major problem.
And to add to this, as many who have converted to OOo without
understanding that the default document type isn't MS Word compatible,
Office 2007 will use a new file format as a default. How many offices
will run into the same problems as if they moved to OOo. Oh, yeah,
they can update their older versions of Office to work with the new
formats. If their product is supported. Will Word 97 get upgrades?
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Robin Laing
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