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Associated Press Reviews OpenOffice
blacklily8 writes "Peter Svensson of the Associated Press has reviewed OpenOffice and declared it a Microsoft Office killer: 'Microsoft Corp. killed off the competition for office software suites and became a de facto monopoly in the area, with what result? The competition is back and, this time, it's free!' Svensson thinks the better Word/WordPerfect file conversion, ability to save as PDF, and new BASE database component make the beta a better candidate for success than the previous versions--and when the kinks get worked out, step back!"
We won, the battle boys! Microsoft is no more!
Red rocket! Red rocket!
Peter Svensson of the Associated Press has reviewed OpenOffice and declared it a Microsoft Office killer:
Anyone care to point out where this was said, because I obviously missed it when I RTFA...
Welcome to Slashspin, do you want lies with that?
But when you have questions, who will you turn to? The world lost a great thinker when MS "retired" Clippy.
http://nerdfortress.com/
When the word gets out that you can pilot a penguin down the hill like a mad man...watch out Bill Gates!
I'm not a troll, but I play one on Slashdot.
Yes it is, but it's already a lot better MS Office, and doesn't have annoying clips, dogs and cats either.
No, it just has that stupid sun that appears anytime you do anything and says, for example, "If you want to type, press the keys on your keyboard."
Les Miserables Volume 1 now up with my reading of
Q.E.D.:
OpenOffice is the fruit of a collaboration between Sun Microsystems and volunteer programmers around the world. Sun bought a German company in 1999 to get office software to bundle with its computers but figured that it wasn't going to make big bucks selling the software to a wider market because of Microsoft's grip.
Next time read within the lines.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
I think the Metro format would be great, if they can travel back in time about 8 years and release it then. The picture that comes to mind when I think about Metro is a horse race where Adobe is about 50 laps ahead and Microsoft's little dead racing pony is still being pushed into the starting gate.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Slashdot declares imminent demise of Microsoft or one of their products. I don't know if I've ever seen such a thing.
Forget the whales - save the babies.
If OpenOffice ships with Solaris 10, Aix 5.4, all linux distros, Mac OS... then it's a matter of time before it becomes the standard.
Scott Adams had something similar to say about 'journalists' in The Dilbert Principle:
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You Say: "Our company is skilled in many other things that are never reported by the biased media."
Media Reports: "Our company ____killed __m____other t__________________er_______________e____s_______
Dan Rather found this out the hard way, didn't he?
Somebody or other said we should try to imagine at least one impossible thing every day. My mind is still convulsing at the thought that someone might actually like clippy.
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.