Another Office Alternative

MiTEG writes "The Washington Post has an article on a cheaper alternative to Microsoft's Office Suite, ThinkFree Office. Currently selling for $50, their product also includes a one year subscription to Cyberdrive, a 20 MB web file-storage service. While it's no StarOffice, this glowing review may help people realize that Microsoft is not the only option." 'Glowing review' probably isn't the right term to use, since the reviewer found quite a few faults.

Comments

Re:Too bad MS Office really IS the best.

[Biggles_the_pilot]

Miss Word? What, are you fucking insane? Word is a piece of over chromed crap. I hate that fucking program. What the fuck is it good for? Ooh, it makes nice and fancy things. Excel, now there's M$s one good piece of software. A spreadsheet with an easy easy easy script language (even if VBA itself is a piece of shit). But fuck that, there are better tools around. But seriously, what is it that Word is soooo good for. I fucking hate that piece of shit for writing.

Re:I'm underwhelmed

[Troll McClure]

Hi, Im Troll McClure
You might remember me from such Trolls as

linux is for fags

*bsd is Dying

and the sucessful Penis bird saga
today im going to show you all how to perfect the basic "microsoft is better than linux" troll.
first of all find a story that debates servers, or scaleability or any such related topic. the more clean cut it is that the microsoft solution appears to be the wors the better, although you can always post on any story on slashdot, because it is full of open source Zealots.
next you commit a plausible comment, something like,

actually, for the area im working in nothing beats a microsoft solution for speed of deployment.

Then go on to say something about the time it takes to set up linux and how its not user freindly, and how

when we tried to implement the linux system it took us twice as long to configure, and the servers arent as reliable as they were

make up some more statistics here
to go further, comment on the unreliabilty of open sorce, the bad customer support and the fact that anybody could modify the code to hack your computer (it helps to display a misunderstanding of the GPL)
do not go too far, however, as it will become less believable.

Ive Been Troll Mclure
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