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MS Office vs OpenOffice.org
MS Office is good as office, but why would I use it at home and pay for it, just to make some useless school projects ?
I've always suggested OOo to my friends(those who like piracy).
I've always suggested OOo to my friends(those who like piracy).
4 months 1 week ago
Ill stick with Microsoft Office over Openoffice anyday
Timlaptopm101Ill stick with Microsoft Office over Openoffice anyday
You'll stick to it until it becomes extremely costly
.Maybe you people are right OOo is not the same these days, it tries to be compatible with everything and eventually has turned out to be a bloatware, it is not able to provide perfect compatibility with newer file extensions but tries to include all that is available.
OOo must change a bit, it must provide support only to very basic extensions and provide plug-ins for the rest of them.
They are really consuming a lot of resources.
@ OOo: We want quality, not bloat.
RBXeh.. The OOO offers excellent compatibility with other Office formats and programs.
In a business environment (which is really what Microsoft and OOo are aiming for), that's completely false. Have some tidbits from an InfoWorld review.
Bottom line: OpenOffice.org 3.1 failed to deliver on its promise of better Microsoft Office interoperability. It severely mangled our Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel test data files, and no amount of new features or targeted performance improvements could overcome this critical deficiency. Factor in OpenOffice's other well-documented warts -- buggy Java implementation, CPU-hogging auto-update system, quirky font rendering -- and it's easy to see why the vast majority of IT shops continue to reject this pretender to the Microsoft Office throne.
Bottom line: SoftMaker Office shows that good things often still come in small packages. The product's compact footprint and low overhead make it ideal for underpowered systems, and its excellent compatibility with Office 2003 file formats means it's a safe choice for heterogeneous environments where external data access isn't a priority. With a promising beta release just around the corner, SoftMaker's star is definitely on the rise.
Even an office suite most people probably haven't heard of are doing things better.
I agree with Eviltape. When we first used OOo on our Word documents, ALL of them lost composition, justified alignment and a lot of quality, a major problem because we use official documents (temporary and permanent unfitness for work and pension documents among others), so OOo needs more development if they want to completely cover all of the MS Office features.
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ErinethALL of them lost composition
Microsoft is not better in this case, when I open documents made with Office 2007 but saved to be compatible with Office 2003, they too lose composition when I open them in Office 2003.
Now how can I say MS is better than OOo ?
4 months 5 days ago
It's better Microsoft Office, the documents created by it has quality, openOffice is a good solution to avoid paid but do not solve the same things like Microsof Office
MS Office is using a propietary file format. So it's not OOo fault the formatting gets weird when you open MS Office files in OOo. OOo are actually advocating for an universal office format. Microsoft is just being tight-assed about inter-compatibility...fearing they'll lose marketshare like what's happening with the browser market.
In the past few years I've both used MS Office 2003 and OOo extensively, I find OOo's formatting and UI superior to MS Office. Although it didn't had some of the advanced features MS had, but at office you won't be using those features 99% of the time.
I've tried MS Office 2007 (mac version) for a short while and frankly -in the immortal words of Stephen Fry- it could teach Linda Lovelace how to suck.
In the past few years I've both used MS Office 2003 and OOo extensively, I find OOo's formatting and UI superior to MS Office. Although it didn't had some of the advanced features MS had, but at office you won't be using those features 99% of the time.
I've tried MS Office 2007 (mac version) for a short while and frankly -in the immortal words of Stephen Fry- it could teach Linda Lovelace how to suck.
3 months 2 weeks ago
I always do a office job with open office and see no problem except if i imported documents saved from microsoft office to open office.
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I am for MS Office but since OO is free I always uses OO. I wanted to switch over to MS Office but the product registration is crap
My English is very bad, sorry.
Je ne suis pas bon en français aussi.
Aber ich kann deutsch. ^_°
2 months 1 week ago
I've used open office before. It has most of the same features that MS Office has. I rarely use the advanced features MS Office has. 99 percent of the time all I need to do is write a simple essay for school or power point. So what's the point in paying 200 dollars for MS Office just for the same thing? Kind of a rip off if you ask me. Unless you have this blind loyalty to Microsoft.
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I've used open office before. It has most of the same features that MS Office has. I rarely use the advanced features MS Office has. 99 percent of the time all I need to do is write a simple essay for school or power point. So what's the point in paying 200 dollars for MS Office just for the same thing? Kind of a rip off if you ask me. Unless you have this blind loyalty to Microsoft.
Well if you're paying $200 you're already doing something wrong. Student edition of Office can be found for $90 or less in some cases. So how is that a blind loyalty to MS? Sounds like you're just another MS hater.
And while OpenOffice is a good alternative for some college students at times it is still subpar for others especially when it comes to those same advanced features you don't use. Not to mention the formatting issues that you may see.
For the record I used OpenOffice for a number of years and have switched back to Office because OpenOffice just isn't powerful enough. I also have doubts about the future of OpenOffice once MS releases the free web versions of Office 2010. At that point why use anything else?
I used to use OpenOffice back at 1.03 or something, then I tried again at 2.0, and disliked it both times. I like Office's simplicity, it makes my job as an administrator a lot easier...
2 months 2 days ago
MS is cool and sometimes easier to use but Open Office is free and lets you do cooler things with documents like change the file extension not to mention you can pretty much open any kind of document with open office.