It seems a bit generous to call this a conversation, but avoiding it sounds good to me. I am interested in what you think, but simply getting a stream of derision in every response is a waste of time for both of us.
Well, thanks for the insults & venom, much appreciated:)
I agree that most people use very few of the features in Office. But I don't think it's reasonable to say "few people will notice the difference" and expect people to interpret your comment in that way. Looking unlike most other Mac applications, and having to launch inside the X11 environment, puts lay people off. One of the prime reasons I have a Mac is due to the aesthetic of the OS and applications; something which breaks that isn't going to immediately recommend itself to me.
As for my "not having an objection to OpenOffice" - that was intended to convey that I am not an MS fanboy by nature and simply presenting an opinion having tried both. You seem intelligent enough to realise what I meant, so I presume that you deliberately misconstrued me.
I have to back him up here: Office for the Mac is an excellent product. It's got a good Mac-like feel, runs fast and performs solidly. I have been continually surprised by it. Being an MS product the price is (of course) very high but it is leagues ahead of the alternatives.
I do not have any objection to using OpenOffice, but on the Mac it still runs in X11, which for me is an instant deal-breaker. My attempts to use NeoOffice were met with too many bugs/crashes for me to get too far into. And as for "most people won't notice the difference" - OpenOffice is an excellent product, but particularly on the Mac that simply isn't true at this stage. On Windows, perhaps.
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It seems a bit generous to call this a conversation, but avoiding it sounds good to me. I am interested in what you think, but simply getting a stream of derision in every response is a waste of time for both of us.
Well, thanks for the insults & venom, much appreciated :)
I agree that most people use very few of the features in Office. But I don't think it's reasonable to say "few people will notice the difference" and expect people to interpret your comment in that way. Looking unlike most other Mac applications, and having to launch inside the X11 environment, puts lay people off. One of the prime reasons I have a Mac is due to the aesthetic of the OS and applications; something which breaks that isn't going to immediately recommend itself to me.
As for my "not having an objection to OpenOffice" - that was intended to convey that I am not an MS fanboy by nature and simply presenting an opinion having tried both. You seem intelligent enough to realise what I meant, so I presume that you deliberately misconstrued me.
I have to back him up here: Office for the Mac is an excellent product. It's got a good Mac-like feel, runs fast and performs solidly. I have been continually surprised by it. Being an MS product the price is (of course) very high but it is leagues ahead of the alternatives. I do not have any objection to using OpenOffice, but on the Mac it still runs in X11, which for me is an instant deal-breaker. My attempts to use NeoOffice were met with too many bugs/crashes for me to get too far into. And as for "most people won't notice the difference" - OpenOffice is an excellent product, but particularly on the Mac that simply isn't true at this stage. On Windows, perhaps.