Not wanting to debate, here, but thought I'd throw some info in...
I write manuals for a living. Last year, I sat down and tested 4 products - 2 MSO versions, WordPerfect, and OOo 2 BETA. For our needs - relatively complex word-processing with export to PDF - OOo (even in beta form) finished a clear winner. Price was not taken into consideration.
What I did take into consideration, with a large troublesome manual as test
case, was:
* Stability (the OOo beta crashed far less often than MSO)
* Speed in opening a large document (OOo was a behind, here)
* Speed and accuracy (did it look the same) in creating a PDF (OOo
was a HUGE winner there)
* Numbered styles (the document used a lot of numbering, which MSO
mishandled - despite lack of complexity)
* Useful (to me) features
* Simplicity of common tasks (OOo was typically better here -
logical screen design)
I think that's all.
- Naomi
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