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Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the looks-like-a-handy-checklist-to-me dept.

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."

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  1. 3 Words by superpulpsicle · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Paper Clip Guy

  2. Chech out the PDF Document Properties Summary by spectasaurus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Creator: QuarkXPress(tm) 4.11
    Producer: Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh

    Hilarious.

  3. Bugs??? by MullerMn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    OpenOffice does not have a dedicated development or support rteam. Consequently, if bugs go unresolved, users have the option to resolve problems by[...]

    Let's hope the dedicated support team are a bit better than the dedicated proof-reading guys, eh? Come on! It's only a 2 page document for gods sake.

  4. Lots more documents... by JohnGrahamCumming · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If you want to read the rest of the document under that opensource/ folder on Microsoft's site just try this Google search:

    http://www.google.com/search?q=opensource+site%3Am icrosoft.com

    John.

  5. MS Office, OpenOffice and Macs by mccalli · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Even better, it was created on a Mac...

    Whilst I appreciate the humour, there's a good argument in favour of MS Office straight away: there's no Mac-native version of OpenOffice.

    Now I realise that it's possible to run OpenOffice on a Mac. In fact, I do run OpenOffice v1.1 on a Mac - I can't justify the price of Office X for the limited amounts of time I do that kind of document creation work. However, even though I've made that choice I have to no note that the X11 port of OOo is ugly, has poor font handling and doesn't conform to any of the Mac's environment. Even cut and paste still uses control and not command.

    Nope - saying that this leaflet was created on a Mac doesn't help the OpenOffice cause, it reinforces the Microsoft one. It will be 2006 before a Mac-native OOo appears, and even then I wonder if it will conform to Mac UI guidelines or whether it will just have Cocoa components overlaying the same Windows'ish layouts, menu names and key choices.

    Mind you, being created on a Mac also shoots down another of their points. There's no Access for the Mac either, though these is Filemaker Pro.

    Cheers,
    Ian

  6. created on a Mac with Quark-XPress by wwwillem · · Score: 1, Redundant

    As a colleague noticed very quickly: "Why is MS publishing this document as a PDF, while all the other stuff on their site are .doc's"? Answer: look at the properties and you will see that this document was created on a Mac with Quark-XPress. Mmmm, that's probably because MS-Office doesn't have a native .PDF export, like StarOffice has :-).

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