OpenOffice 2.0 vs. MS Office Review

trewornan writes "There's an interesting, if partisan, review of OpenOffice 2.0 in comparison to Microsoft Office over on Real Tech News. Open Office gets a general vote of approval, as you might guess from the title 'Open Office 2.0 Kicks MS Office Around The Block'" From the article: "My primary use for OpenOffice has always been as a word processor and I believe this is an area where it excels (so to speak!). For anyone used to MS Office, the difference in the two interfaces is minimal. In fact, I find it easier to use OpenOffice's interface than MS Office's for various things such as inserting a header and footer. To create or change a header and footer in MS Office XP, you must go to the "view" menu. I'm not sure why something like a header or footer would be placed in the "view" menu before it is actually part of a document."

Comments

Re:Who uses Office XP anymore?

[dotcher]

So the solution to crappy software is to load it at boot time? Riiiight.

I can sorta see that for browsers, considering how much of IE is shared with the shell and loaded at login. But for a word processor?

Re:Fark getting an OS article before /.?

[Fallingcow]

Everyone is this thread is getting modded down... that must mean that

IT'S A TRAP!