While it's great that OO.o is making strides in market penetration, the problem remains that even if you train everyone at your company to use it, everyone at your partner companies generally won't and the formats aren't completely compatible.
Having used Office 2007 I must say that I've been pleasantly surprised at the intuitiveness of the product, and have yet to discover a flaw, in general usage anyway.
MS may be a less than great company, but Office is a solid platform and application. When openoffice.org manages to put out a product that competes I'll use it, but until then I don't have the time to mess around with a lesser product.
that's the business plan I've been looking for!
step 1 patent things others invented
step 2 sue the people who invented it for not paying me
step 3 business is booming!
Eclipse car audio came out with a voice activated device a few years ago. It was called the Eclipse Commander, and controlled among other things: radio, cd player/changer, and power windows.
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In Soviet Russia, foul language bans you!
Would that be one of them Canadian pirates, matey?
Didn't M$ get in trouble with the justice department because their browser was tied in to the OS too closely?
While it's great that OO.o is making strides in market penetration, the problem remains that even if you train everyone at your company to use it, everyone at your partner companies generally won't and the formats aren't completely compatible.
Having used Office 2007 I must say that I've been pleasantly surprised at the intuitiveness of the product, and have yet to discover a flaw, in general usage anyway.
MS may be a less than great company, but Office is a solid platform and application. When openoffice.org manages to put out a product that competes I'll use it, but until then I don't have the time to mess around with a lesser product.
I had a keyboard that came with a compaq presario, which had a split space bar. One side was the space bar and the other was a second backspace key.
that's the business plan I've been looking for! step 1 patent things others invented step 2 sue the people who invented it for not paying me step 3 business is booming!
or for that matter how many crimes could be blamed on Abu Ghraib The army does it why can't I?
Eclipse car audio came out with a voice activated device a few years ago. It was called the Eclipse Commander, and controlled among other things: radio, cd player/changer, and power windows.