A while ago, I wrote an email:
I have two computers. One in the dining room has Microsoft Office and
the one in my basement office has OpenOffice.org 2.0.1. In the dining
room, using Excel, I created a spreadsheet. It was a large spreadsheet
. I wanted to do some data manipulation, but couldn't. The icons were
"grayed out" which prevented me from manipulating the data the way I
wanted. I asked my son (who learned Excel in college) how to do what I
wanted and that I could not understand why Excel would prevent me from
doing something so mundane. After explaining to me that Excel in school
wouldn't do it either, he calmly said, "Welcome to the world of
Microsoft bugs."
I then went to my basement office computer and read the Excel
spreadsheet into OpenOffice. I had absolutely no problem doing what I
wanted to do originally with Excel, but couldn't.
In another instance, my son created a Microsoft Powerpoint project at
college. He wanted to finish it at home. He couldn't use the one in the
dining room, because that was an older version of Powerpoint. So again,
we went downstairs and used OpenOffice. He was absolutely amazed at how
similar to Microsoft Powerpoint, that OpenOffice was. He even stated
that it was nice to use a program that performed.
Microsoft Office would be a great program, , , , , , , IF IT WAS
RELIABLE! ! ! ! ! !
OpenOffice 10 years behind Microsoft? I D-O-N-'-T T-H-I-N-K S-O!
Greg
Robin Laing wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
One would expect this.
Fred
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/3517/106/
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For users around here, 10 years behind is an improvement if "they" can
"control" what the software "does" to their work. MS Office is a big
problem with many workers around here. They cannot get the formatting
to work the way they want and need. There are those times that MS
Office decides to change the formatting of a document and won't undo.
Have you ever heard a grown man scream after 3 hours of work just
went down the tubes because of this? It isn't pleasant.
Sure MS is making many major changes in their next version of Office
but if the reports are correct, it won't sell with workers if their
productivity is greatly affected. How many workers will complain and
want to go back to the "Old Version?"
Are gadgets too complex for us?
http://news.com.com/Are+gadgets+too+complex+for+us/2100-1041_3-6046314.html
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