+1
I like OOo a lot; I have used it at home for around 5 years. I have a part
time job as an OOo trainer for a non-profit health care related company. I just
recently started working another part time job at a for-profit company that I
used to work full time for, which uses MS Office, so I need to re-learn how to
use Word and Excel again.
I have to say, there are a number of things that work easier with MS Office
than with OOo, especially with Excel vs Calc. There are also some things I
prefer with OOo over MS Office.
Depending on one's needs, I can fully understand how some people might think
that OOo is far superior, and that others might find out that they just can't
get by with OOo, that they really need MS Office. To claim or imply that OOo is
clearly superior in general is neither true nor helpful.
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Sent: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:29 AM
Subject: RE: [users] OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck
People using OO decided for themselves that OO is better in _one_ way or
another (license, price, portability, openness of development (which is
what attracts me), etc).
My point is - OO has it's own issues and we need to work on them, need
to push developers to improve OO and we should not lie to ourselves that
OO is better in every aspect.
Claiming that OO is faster or that it does not crash or does not cause
data loss is big lie.
(Whether MSO is issue-free or not is unimportant even for those who use
it (let alone users of OpenOffice). What _is_ important to them is if it
has issues _affecting_ them personally, and if it has, then what are the
solutions).
Regards,
K. Palagin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Forster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 5:32 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [users] OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck
>
> 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).
>
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