Microsoft Tablet PCs just didnt gain a lot of market share because MS is too stupid to make ads for this in TV and on fairs, presentations, etc.
I bet every second student who is willing to pay more than 1000 and is not Apple-fanatic would rather buy a tablet PC than a normal notebook - but guess what: the normal "go to a shop and buy what the employees recommend"-user doesn't even knows that such a thing exists.:-(
used mail merge for 150 customers once and it worked pretty fast (exported all documents to pdf). backend was a calc table. almost same machine: P4 2,8GHz (no HT), 512 MB Ram
It was something I used quite a bit and it was something I could point to and say "that's not in Microsoft Office". It's in Office since PowerPoint 2002. I used it years ago for giving usage presentations to students. 100% sure;)
on my mbp with all updates installed safari is just still the fastest browser I can get (didn't really tried OmniPro, I have to admit) - faster compared to both FF and camino.
I suggest posting your machine make, model, specs, etc. in this thread and at sites like linuxquestions.org. Surely someone else has a machine like yours and hhas already got it sorted. ^^He prolly just wants to run it out-of-the-box like XP and Vista runs without the need, to check forums or download packages after a long google search (or compiling and configuring config files).
I can use linux, but just this single case here is the best reason against linux on the desktop for the mass: It simply does NOT "just work" like Windows (maybe OEM Windows) does.
Web browsing etc. - okay. But what if the user wants to listen to a web radio or watch a DVD? MPEG2 is not always included, Windows Media can't be played, iTunes or WM-DRM does not work properly (I used Crossover for iTunes, which is... well... not the best!;-) ).
if they're satisfied with Office 97 they should just keep it and don't change anything, neither the OS nor the office suit.
However, in the companies I know and where I work they're running versions from Office 2002 up to 2007 on the newer Vista machines and also use Visio, which is also more feature rich than OpenOffice Drawer.
As I said - OO.org will be OK for a lot of people, but some need a more powerful OS. That's why Windows will be OK for most of the people, but some need Linux or Mac;)
Regarding formats: How can OO.org support a certain feature from a file (even it is open) if it cannot render it? We see the same with browsers - there are some XHTML or CSS3 features browsers can't render, but it's open... So? Useles ATM.
OpenOffice still doesn't have all the features. As always with this topic, you are comparing OO.org with a Word 2000 or so. But what about great Office 2004 and 2007? OO.org does NOT support al the features and therefor can't open it (even if saved as doc, and not new docx). I like linux, I like MacOS X, but I have Office 2007 in a Parallels machine, to use all the beautiful features of Word, Groove and SharePoint 2007. OpenOffice is fine for personal use, because it as all the standard-features, but not for a good organized enterprise network.
(Btw: No need to flame, OO-fans... It's not against the product... It's an useful Office Lite and many friends use it successfully and never complain about missing a particular feature. But those users simply don't know what Office 207 can do. Same with Ubuntu and Windows, they don't care what's inside... whether a Mac OS X, whether Vista, whether XP or even a userfriendly Linux)
with most applications it just resizes your window to an unpredictable size.
Yeah, that's true. Working with Excel-sheets or so really needs full screen...
So, result of discussion: We need a setting to change the "maximize-button"-behaviour for SOME of the apps.
well... I DO know Alt-Tab and use it. It's just that there are a lot of windows that actually run good and productive enough not at full screen mode (of course there are those who really should be run at full screen)... a browser, a ftp-client, terminals, IM windows, players, editors, etc don't need to be run in full screen. usually a good website will also look good without using the full screen, while others need a lot of space.
I think of course it's a personal opinion... but I'm sure more of the mac users will have their apps not in full screen while Windows users prolly have like basically every window maximized.
you don't need to flame so much just about that unimportant off-topic...
real Mac Users don't browse at full screen - and since the menu bar (for example) is not part of the movable window, it's not neccessary... Exposé and the overall design makes it more powerful and productive to use like "square"-formed windows and not the full 1280x1024 or whatever... I miss those nice and handy space-saving windows always when I'm under Windows!
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Microsoft Tablet PCs just didnt gain a lot of market share because MS is too stupid to make ads for this in TV and on fairs, presentations, etc. I bet every second student who is willing to pay more than 1000 and is not Apple-fanatic would rather buy a tablet PC than a normal notebook - but guess what: the normal "go to a shop and buy what the employees recommend"-user doesn't even knows that such a thing exists. :-(
used mail merge for 150 customers once and it worked pretty fast (exported all documents to pdf). backend was a calc table. almost same machine: P4 2,8GHz (no HT), 512 MB Ram
It's in Office since PowerPoint 2002. I used it years ago for giving usage presentations to students. 100% sure
on my mbp with all updates installed safari is just still the fastest browser I can get (didn't really tried OmniPro, I have to admit) - faster compared to both FF and camino.
You can just change behaviour in the Preferences...
if they're satisfied with Office 97 they should just keep it and don't change anything, neither the OS nor the office suit. However, in the companies I know and where I work they're running versions from Office 2002 up to 2007 on the newer Vista machines and also use Visio, which is also more feature rich than OpenOffice Drawer. As I said - OO.org will be OK for a lot of people, but some need a more powerful OS. That's why Windows will be OK for most of the people, but some need Linux or Mac ;)
Regarding formats: How can OO.org support a certain feature from a file (even it is open) if it cannot render it? We see the same with browsers - there are some XHTML or CSS3 features browsers can't render, but it's open... So? Useles ATM.
OpenOffice still doesn't have all the features. As always with this topic, you are comparing OO.org with a Word 2000 or so. But what about great Office 2004 and 2007? OO.org does NOT support al the features and therefor can't open it (even if saved as doc, and not new docx).
I like linux, I like MacOS X, but I have Office 2007 in a Parallels machine, to use all the beautiful features of Word, Groove and SharePoint 2007. OpenOffice is fine for personal use, because it as all the standard-features, but not for a good organized enterprise network.
(Btw: No need to flame, OO-fans... It's not against the product... It's an useful Office Lite and many friends use it successfully and never complain about missing a particular feature. But those users simply don't know what Office 207 can do. Same with Ubuntu and Windows, they don't care what's inside... whether a Mac OS X, whether Vista, whether XP or even a userfriendly Linux)
well... I DO know Alt-Tab and use it.
It's just that there are a lot of windows that actually run good and productive enough not at full screen mode (of course there are those who really should be run at full screen)... a browser, a ftp-client, terminals, IM windows, players, editors, etc don't need to be run in full screen.
usually a good website will also look good without using the full screen, while others need a lot of space.
I think of course it's a personal opinion... but I'm sure more of the mac users will have their apps not in full screen while Windows users prolly have like basically every window maximized.
you don't need to flame so much just about that unimportant off-topic...
real Mac Users don't browse at full screen - and since the menu bar (for example) is not part of the movable window, it's not neccessary... Exposé and the overall design makes it more powerful and productive to use like "square"-formed windows and not the full 1280x1024 or whatever... I miss those nice and handy space-saving windows always when I'm under Windows!