MS Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind

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MS Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday March 5, 2006 @08:37PM from the one-office-to-rule-them-all dept.

greengrass writes "In a recent interview with IT Wire, general manager of business strategy for the Information Worker Group at Microsoft, Alan Yates expressed the opinion that Open Office is at the same level that MS office was around 10 years ago. Supposedly only suitable for the single desktop, isolated user. After all, it doesn't even have an e-mail client!"

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Re:Single, isolated users. by maxwell+demon · 2006-03-05 20:49 · Score: 5, Informative

As is Mozilla Thunderbird.

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Re:What's the wizz-bang features it's missing? by brusk · 2006-03-05 21:10 · Score: 5, Informative

Its international support (for East Asian languages, at least, which I use heavily) really doesn't seem to be up to snuff. It's better than Office 97, by far, and probably better than Office 2000, but not as good as Office 2003 with the Proofing Tools pack installed (adds fonts and utilities for a variety of language needs). OOo basically cloned some of the Chinese/Japanese formatting from MS Office, but not all of it and not well enough. There are lots of very specific things it's nice to be able to do with East Asian text (notably vertical text and interlinear/supralinear comments) that OOo doesn't do very well.

Not a big thing for everyone, but essential for some.

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Re:Gates knows best by Crayon+Kid · 2006-03-05 21:54 · Score: 5, Informative

I mean, M$ has pleasing to look at icons, whereas OO has old Windows 3.1 looking icons.

I think Jakub Steiner would probably take offense at this statement. I mean, the dude spent all this time designing a huge set of icons for OpenOffice. Now, why OpenOffice doesn't actually uses them, that's another story.

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Re:They think "Free Software" is "Spyware" too by strider44 · 2006-03-05 22:17 · Score: 5, Informative

*sigh* For the mods who don't get the joke, the site linked is satire. Surely the poll at the side saying "Should Mac/Linux/Windows users intermarry?" might have tweaked a few neurons.
Re:Maybe you should try Lyx... by bw_bur · 2006-03-05 23:33 · Score: 5, Informative

Pretty easily.
?!?!? care to elaborate? by hummassa · 2006-03-06 01:11 · Score: 5, Informative

See:
$ apt-cache search latex japan debiandoc-sgml - DebianDoc SGML DTD and formatting tools cjk-latex - A LaTeX macro package for CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) hbf-kanji48 - Japanese Kanji 48x48 bitmap font (JIS X-0208) for CJK ipe - drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or PS formats jlatex209-base - basic NTT JLaTeX 2.09 macro files jlatex209-bin - NTT Japanese LaTeX 2.09 command and configuration files jtex-bin - NTT Japanese TeX binary files ptex-base - basic ASCII pTeX library files ptex-bin - The ASCII pTeX binary files ptex-jtex - ASCII jTeX with pTeX

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Re:Maybe you should try Lyx... by Gulthek · 2006-03-06 01:23 · Score: 5, Informative

That's crazy talk. I've used XeTeX to write Chinese for years.

Screenshot of Chinese/Japanese Unicode support.

All the beauty of TeX, all the ease of unicode.