2007/4/29, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Kirill S. Palagin wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Michael Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:22 AM >> To: [email protected] >> >> Microsoft Office >> <snip> >> > > I do not give a damn about their office, because I do not generally use > it. > > >> OpenOffice.org >> ============== >> 1. Loads the core component to run all applications when the >> first is loaded. Better integration between components is the >> desired objective. >> > > You mean that even if user does not need any other part of Office, > he/she would still pay the tax? > Of maybe you mean crash/hung in one app would bring down all the > documents at once is "better"? > I have never seen OO crash, either on Windows or Linux.
OT: I have, a lot of times (on Windows 98, and also a few times on XP), but as I recall it, MS Office '97 crashed more often. I remember first time I ran Excel on my Windows 98 system in early 1999. I had just bought the computer and installed Windows + Excel, nothing else I think (except the shit that followed, such as McAfee antivirus etc). I started Excel and it crashed almost immediately! Still OT: A year or so later (maybe two), I had a rather big Excel file which kept track of my money, kind of. One day I opened it (I opened it every day, but this day was funny...) and changed the values of two cells, let's say Cell1 and Cell2, saved it and Excel crashed. Opened the file again, did the same editing, Excel crashed again. Restarted my computer, opened the file again, same changes, crash again. Opened the file again, this time I changed Cell2 first and then Cell1, saved and exited. No crash! This was Excel '97. Funny program...
>> 2. Is multi-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris) which >> includes loading the java core for some aspects to run. Java >> itself is multi platform. >> > > This is of importance to IT departments (even is user is it's own IT > dept), not end users. > Many people have both Linux and Windows. Some also have Macs. I recently installed Linux on a co-workers home computer for his wife to use, because she's fed up with having to use their other computer, which runs Windows and all it's problems.
