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Word 2007 Vs. Open Office 2.3 Writer
hairyfeet writes "Bruce Byfield of Linux.com has just posted his third Office shootout between Microsoft Office and Open Office. This is the first version comparing the new Microsoft Word 2007 with Writer from the latest version of Open Office. The verdict: while Microsoft Office beats Open Office in a few categories, overall Open Office wins — but by not as large a margin as in the past." Linux.com and Slashdot share a corporate overlord.
I wonder if Open Office defaults to all the annoying rubbish turned on.
I really miss Word Perfect 4.1 :o(
Personally I preferred 5.1, 6.0 was great for having a DOS GUI... That meant I could run a WYSIWYG in DOS... That was something special in those days.These days text editors (vim et al) have spell checkers, so there is little reason to leave the editor window. One nice thing that some of the DOS word processors could do was save text in a full justified layout, which made it useful for some things, which seems to have been lost to converting the text to man page format and then becoming a copy/paste monkey on those rare occasions when it's needed.
5.1 in mine and many others' eyes, flawless - I hear the reason they lost ground to Word was that Word 6.0 was cheaper, but if you noticed, they did bump the version numbers so Word 4.0 was not competing with WordPerfect 5.1, obviously a bigger version number makes a better product...
Why UNIX?
*spits exploding bottle rockets all over you*
Ha Ha! You cannot avoid the flames!
*rubs burning magnesium hair in your face*
HAHAHHHAHHAA!
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?