One point, and a very BIG point at that: I, as well as many, many, many, many, many others can not possibly afford M$O, let alone M$O Professional. From reading this post, am I to understand that M$O is entirely without issues? Un-Hunh! If M$O was entirely without issues, then maybe a valid point could be made and many more people would attempt to be able to afford M$O.
Greg "Kirill S. Palagin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RBL > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [users] OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck > I also find many things are simply easier to do in > OpenOffice. Calc is tighter and faster. Are you nuts? Excel is faster in every respect - starting, opening documents, recalculating, saving. I have cases where save/load in time Calc (with native formats) is 50 TIMES longer then with Excel. And Calc uses several times more memory with those files opened. Operations that just work in Excel require many additional steps in Calc (see issues 69690, 66052, 67528, 67851, 68515, 68715, 70778, 67912, 35579, 27745, 33851) > Configuring apps is > easier. Apps load and run faster. There's little > non-functional eye candy. And overall, I find there's minimal bloat. Bloat or not, OO is slower. > > MSFT Office does have some advantages, but they're outweighed > by OpenOffice's advantages. And I have never lost data using > OpenOffice. Yah, right. See issues 33851, 70320 and 69524. > Then again, I have auto-backups turned on, and I hit Ctrl+S > every few seconds. > > Lastly, show me where I can report MSFT Office bugs, There are not that many left. Certainly less than in OO. And fixing clear defects does not seem to be high on OO team agenda. > or get > free online support 24x7? In user forums. MS even hosts newsgroups for that purpose (in addition to thousands of mailing lists, webboards etc). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
