Why "Upgrade" To Office 2007

walterbyrd writes "IMO: Office-2007 is a contender for the least useful upgrade in the history of computing. It's expensive, has a steep learning curve, and it's default format is even less compatible with anything else. Stan Beer discusses the "upgrade" in his article: Question: why do I need to upgrade to Office 2007?."

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But if you dont upgrade

[nurb432]

You dont help lock in the monopoly even further.

Isn't it a downgrade?

[The Terminator]

I'm using OpenOffice 2.0.4, why should I downgrade to any release of MS-Office?

Re:Clarity comes from persective. It's no win for

[Macthorpe]

Wow, that's quite a slushy pile of shit you wrote there, but you could always answer my actual points instead of wasting my time for 5 minutes.

Why do you hold MS to a higher standard than you hold OSS, to the point where "M$ can't win", not on any scale which involves actual feature comparison, but on a scale that only you hold them to? A scale where their current systems are judged on the past business practices of the company that made them?

Is it better to change or not to change? If it's better to change and evolve, why don't MS have the right to make their products better without the insane 'usability is broken because people know how it worked before' argument? If change isn't good then why aren't MS allowed to change but every other company is allowed to evolve it's products as and when it's necessary?

How the fuck do you know that Office's new UI is worse when you haven't used it?

I don't want to hear your opinion on Spandex, or Rubber, or whatever you use. I don't give an arse about your opinions of W2k or XP. It doesn't matter two fetid cocks whether you think an employer is 'stupid' for sticking to Office.

Hell, seeing as this is exposition hour, why don't I tell you my story.

I use MSOffice and I have never, ever had a problem with sending clients and bosses alike well formatted presentations in Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, that have earnt me 2 promotions in 6 months. I am now, after a short period of time, overseeing all reporting and statistical matters for the entire customer service department of a UK-based ISP. I am in line for my third pay raise in as many months. Why? You said it yourself - content is more important than form. With Word I have never had an issue presenting documents legibly and professionally, and that will continue to earn me my pay.

With OpenOffice, which I tried to use when working from home one night, I spend 20 minutes doing a task that took me 2. It is slow, buggy, and unstable. It didn't take me long to give up on it entirely.

So how about you give up this shit, Twit? You never answer the questions people ask you, you just run out on a tangent and hope that people fawn on your experience with OSS. Doesn't work on me, and it won't work on anyone with half a brain.

Re:Keep Windows and still use Open Office..

[Toby_Tyke]

Yes, I know. The comment I replied to made just that point, and went on to say that once the transistion to OO.o on windows was complete, they would be one step closer to being able to move to linux, since they would no longer be tied to MS Office. The grandparent of that post (and the originator of the thread) was suggesting moving entirely to Linux. Thats why the thread title is "well if you're gonna switch, why not.." the rest of the sentance is "move to linux".

Of course if you had thought to read the post I replied to before attempting to educate me, you might have known all that already.