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Gateway To Use Corel Over MS For Office Suite

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the first-door-to-your-left dept.

djellusion writes "Dealing yet another blow to Microsoft, Gateway has announced that it will be using Corels Wordperfect office suite instead of Microsoft Office. I can only see this as a good thing because friendly competition creates drive for better(less clippy) products. Can I order my system with no office suite please?"

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  1. WordPerfect by TheRealFixer · · Score: 2, Troll

    My HP laptop came with WordPerfect2000. Can't stand it. Akward to use, lacks in features. WordPerfect was cool back in version 5.1. Of course, it was just about the ONLY viable word processor back in 5.1.

    The first thing I did was uninstall it and install OpenOffice 1.0.1.

  2. EULAgy for MS Work Suite 2002 by HealYourChurchWebSit · · Score: 1, Troll

    Microsoft Work Suite Dead at 2002

    William Gates, CEO of the CPU, has announced the watered-down, kissing cousin
    of Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Work Suite (MWS). It was version 2002.

    MWS was laid to rest in one of the largest disassemblies in recent years.
    Placed in a bit bucket between Lotus Smart Suite and WordStar, its demise
    was celebrated by such luminaries as Bjarne Stroustrup and James Gosling.

    The gravesite was piled high with unfinished .RTF documents as
    longtime wannabe, WordPad ruffled some feathers when whie delivering a eulogy,
    it describing MWS as an app who "was constantly on a quest to please the home user."

    Internet Explorer didn't help things by asserting that MWS' demise was accelerated
    by imposed strict licensing deals with hardware makers, expensive user upgrade paths
    and intrusive registrations and overbearing EULAs.

    At that point delegates from Visual Basic .NET stepped in and restored operational order.

    Later, Notepad was heard coming to the defense of WordPad by asserting that a
    double entendre was impossible as it was not equipped
    "extended thesaurus support ... then again, neither was MWS."

    MWS is survived by a 30 year End Users License Agreement, along with
    a host of incompatible database files.

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  3. Re:No news here by ites · · Score: 2, Troll
    Higher prices caused by piracy...
    I have to take issue with this. Piracy does not cause high prices. Monopoly control of the market causes high prices. Microsoft has carefully seeded the globe with Windows and Office and has even accepted piracy as one of the many ways its culture gets distributed and engrained.
    Like any business, Microsoft raise their prices when they think they can.
    Most users are used to getting fat packets of software for very little. What is happening now is that (a) there are more choices because Microsoft has not been able to extend its products infinitely, and (b) Microsoft has started to tighten the noose around its customers.
    Frankly, having learnt one WP or spreadhseet or presentation tool, anyone with modest smarts can learn another.
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  4. Re:Who *needs* MS Office ? by vldmr_krn · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who needs all the extra features of MS Office anyway?

    Almost everyone I've worked with. Just yesterday, one of my employers (I troubleshoot computers and teach) needed the fax wizard feature. Also yesterday, I needed to do a mail merge for another employer to create labels for their upcoming poster exhibit, and showed him how to use the convert table to text feature to generate a email mailing list of his previous customers. Near the beginning of the year, another one of my employers used Word for their company catalog which needed some fancy tables.

    I live in New York, so maybe I'm around more sophisticated people, but none of these people were geeks. Two of them are almost technophobes.