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Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org
sander writes "As noted on linxfr.org, Microsoft has published a competitive guide on OpenOffice.org 1.1 vs Microsoft Office. Some of the weirder things they claim in it is that by choosing MS Office over OpenOffice.org one is protected from the threat of viruses. But the giant seems to be sweating -- and with a good reason."
I chose MS Office because I like throwing away my money. I am also a moron. That is why I have a chandelier hanging in my car.
I also reply below your current threshold.
The path is:
/partner/salesmarketing/opensource/discguides
Disc stands for "disinformation campaign"
"by choosing MS Office over OpenOffice.org one is protected from the threat of viruses."
That is why any one uses Microsoft products, duh!
"Microsoft Office vs OpenOffice" document, published by Microsoft in ... PDF format.
Amusing...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Slashdot should have posted another link to the english version- i don't think the majority of /. readers can read french fluently.
From what I've seen round here, the English version would be no more useful than a version in Klingon.
Of course Microsoft would create this document using their own products, naturally, they are the big proponent of the "Eat Your Own Dog Food" methodology.
So why then when I click on Document Properties on this PDF do I see?
Creator: QuarkXpress 4.11
Producer: Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh
Bill: while you're transferring this over to Microsoft Publisher perhaps you'd like to fix the typo on page 1: "rteam".
John.
"B-but, Open Office doesn't have Clippy, the helpful paper clip. Or a wizard. Or a little Microsoft logo that tells you when you're writing a letter (because obviously, you don't know). We even have a helpful little puppy! You like puppies, don't you? Everybody likes puppies! Fine, go ahead and use Open Office, puppy killer!"
Oo is vulnerable? lol
Maybe if they find a way to import Office macros..
Trolling is a art,
Can someone give a +5 (thousand) to the MS guy who wrote the part about viruses!? Rolling on the floor from hysterical laughter!
M$ is right about one thing- migration is the most painful and expensive part. Unlike using M$ products, though, the pain stops afterwards.
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SCO is weenies
Gator is Spyware
Microsoft is thugs
Some of the weirder things they claim in it is that by choosing MS Office over OpenOffice.org one is protected from the threat of viruses
Ohh.. That Microsoft is such a kidder. They had a great straight face for that one. They almost had me going there.
What you mean they were serious? Oh dear...
The spell checker must not work on that doc (or they didn't use it or they have some strange settings)
"support rteam."
Maybe others, but that one was glaring @ me (it is right beneath the 3. OpenOffice 1.1 is an Open Source alternative)
Also what is this OpenOffice they refer to? I know of an OpenOffice.Org and they mention that "OpenOffice" is a trademark owned by someone else.
The best part has to be "with an R&D budget of over $4.8 billion, Office is a core Microsoft business."
$4.8 billion, and it's not up to par, IMO, with OpenOffice
Setec Astronomy
I was so confused but now I see the light, thanx Microsoft. I didn't realize that I needed to spend $500 bucks just to do basic word processing at home. But you showed me otherwise.
Death to Clippy
Miserable failure
Step 5 - Profit!
-- Alastair
I think it goes:
*) First, you quote Benjamin Franklin
*) Then, you quote Ghandi
*) ???
*) Profit!
Really, folks, famous quotations are no substitute for an original opinion.
"MS-Office was feature-complete as of Office 95"
They did add that wonderful feature that refuses to believe that you actually do want bullet points numbered 1,2,3,7, and 9.
-B
Microsoft Office has no threat of viral infection. That's because viral infection is very real. Hell, they ought to remove all doubt and just ship Microsoft Office pre-infected.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
tlhIngan mu' DichDaq SIq Dung SoH!!
[Note, google for online english to klingon translator and use the first link]
NeoThermic
Use my link above, or to view my server, NeoThermic.com
It's amazing.
The only office features I've ever used that oo doesn't have, are some of the useful security holes... eh, I mean collaboration features.
This signature has Super Cow Powers
'Cause then you would be a girlie-man.
we're Hans und Franz and we're here to pump you up!
See, now, whereas some may call this a bug, isn't it far more positive to characterize it as a commitment to tradition? /. such a negative reputation...
It's you humorless types that give
Where you will end up if you think Klingon is a real language.
Best Slashdot comment ever
Some of the weirder things they claim in it is that by choosing MS Office over OpenOffice.org one is protected from the threat of viruses
Bill, give Darl his crack pipe back...
...
But stainless steel is silv... Oh.
You're a week off!
an PDF pushing Microsoft Office made on a Mac using Quark
Where's the Klingon version? It's the only way i communicate on Thursdays ...oops.
Indeed. I can barely believe they touted having Outlook as part of MSOffice as a feature.
Y'know, you blow up one sun and suddenly everyone expects you to walk on water.
They are likely afraid of "meta data" if they posted in .doc format :)
Ahh yes, the paperclip. Otherwise known as the productivity police. "Productivity detected! BINK! BINK! Now interrupting with inane and irrelevant suggestion"
But if they fix it then a lot of Word users would have to be retrained and M$ says retraining is expensive.
Bah features. MS Office looks prettier every release. That's why I upgrade.
I'm torn...
I can't decide which is worse:
groping through Knowledge Base documents and being put on hold for hours calling Microsoft
OR
reading outdated man pages then being cussed out by an experience, yet socially inept user, for asking a question on a discussion board
When it all comes down to it (MS or OO), I just end up entering the error message into Google anyway.
Slashdot Syndrome: the sudden, extreme urge to correct someone in order to validate one's self.
From the Document Properties for OpenOffice.pdf:
If you want real layout you have to use something like Pagemaker or Framemaker or Quark XPress, which are designed for it. Word tries, and OOo does pretty much what Word does.
But I don't think Word tries hard enough. The layout has been pretty much the same for as long as I can remember, which is a pretty damn long time. Meanwhile they're busily adding blinking text (for the blinking toner in my laser printer). For all OOo's faults, at least it hasn't had those faults for years running.
Shouldnt that be:
while (!unconcious()) { drink_guinness(); }
My life is an open book ... up to a point.
Your country is stupid.
Game... blouses.
"OpenOffice does not have a dedicated development or
support rteam."
But it _does_ have a working spell checker!
Good question, I was wondering if anyone would catch it. I watch people around me brawl with Excel and Word version conflicts all day. I hear people cursing both applications all day. Sounds like crap to me. It's crap to me as a non-user because it's (1) expensive, (2) inescapable by the average joe, (3) the product of a monpolist (it is unethical to support the activities of a monopolist) and (4) the cause of a great deal of woe for anybody that refuses to use it yet must interoperate with the rest of the world.
I don't care if it actually is the best set of apps since the Big Bang - for all the reasons above, it's crap. Period. Once I am installed as Supreme Intergalactic Emperor it's use will be punishable by death, and those bastards who've created it will be the first ones up against the wall...;-)
The heat from below can burn your eyes out
My wife uses it to exchange letters in Russian with her father.
You didnt by chance get her from http://www.russianbrides.com.?
I never said that it couldn't get you anywhere, I said it would never get you anywhere *worth going to.*
They should rename it Firebird.
Karma: Contrapositive
Hmm, I made my wife compare the two office suites and then asked her which ones is better. And she said flat out that MS Office is better and more convenient to her as well since she used to use it at work.
Then I told her that she can either pay $500 and I will install MS Office for her or she can have OpenOffice for free. Guess what? She opted for OpenOffice and bunch of shoes and dresses :)
I'd say, the OpenOffice is definitely ready for market.
If programs would be read like poetry, most programmers would be Vogons.
Haven't tried it yet, but The Kompany just released their GUI/RAD database tool as open source. Don't recall the name of it, but it's listed on their products page, and slashdot ran a story about it a few months back.
Hey MS, If you weren't afraid of formatting losses, why did you choose PDF? And how did you get your nice Office suite to create PDFs? Oh did you have to pay someone else for that feature? *snigger*
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
I wonder why they left out the system req. for Office, since that is actually a BIG factor in the "Total cost of ownership" they talk about.
I'm ready to switch. OpenOffice doesn't have all the wonderful nifty features that MS Office has, and I'm tired of explaining my use of this obscure piece of software to my friends and family...
So. Tell me - where do I buy MS Office for FreeBSD?
No?
Linux?
Solaris?
Oh.
In Soviet Russia, the famous people quote YOU.
"How fine you look when dressed in rage."
You don't get out much, do you ?
Look carefully in the "OpenOffice 1.1 is an open source alternative" section: "...development or support rteam..." It should be "team", no "r". I've noticed that this document is typesetted in QuarkXPress. But I think they type the text content in their valuable MS Word, and they do have a commercial spell checker. Or may be they don't treat this document seriously (They should publish it later, e.g. April 1st). BTW: Why they typeset this little document in the infamous Microsoft Office Publisher?
"Document conversion and rewriting macros (OpenOffice does not support Office macros)"
My company just did a Windows NT -> Windows XP and Office 97 -> Office XP upgrade and hired an external company to rewrite all the macro's.
Now that's an advantage.