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    I'll be flocking to buy that then... NOT!!
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    Why bother? Get Open Office 2 when its finally released, or even better get Star Office 8. It costs peanuts and you get full support.

    I've not missed MS Office one bit. Don't know many people who use the extra bells and whistles in MS Office anyway.
    Then theres the Open Document Standard...

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    Certainly changed away from the 'classic' toolbars there!

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    All depends if you get office for peanuts- £17 through the NHS for some of us!
    Not around too often!

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    I work in a Uni and I can get the office suite for nowt under the agreement with MS but I still opt for OpenOffice 2. Less bloated, works, and is nippy, MS Office is sluggish a million and one features 99% never use at work. If I had my way it would be OpenOffice throughout the department, many staff use it on their laptops anyway, so the Uni is wasting money on licenses that will never be used.

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    A number of local authorities are running Open Source projects to assess the costs, and are actively moving their users to Open or Star Office.

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    Open Office is very much second place in useability, the simple test of this is which does my mum prefer?

    Or what do the staff who are mostly 6th form educated, what can they use? MS Office.

    The problem is they seam to off gone nuts with the GUI, and its going to take some getting used to for most people, which negates the low/no training cost. The fact is i'd pay £100 for office at most, but i'd want everything (VISO, were is the OO tool for that?)

    OO is also very much in second place on features + functions, they've only got calc to support as many rows as excel in version 2.0! (now to most programmers this shows there very lazy, in "good practice").

    OO also has one big problem, its portable, which means it runs equally badly on every platform. .Net is microsoft proprietry stuff, which MS are going to be making full use of (apparently!)

    Now whilst this screen candy does nothing for me, it would be foolish to think MS haven't got this figured out, they know that the majority of their income is made from office.
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    good god m$ are going VERY macish same with vista

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    Quote Originally Posted by TiMeZeRo
    good god m$ are going VERY macish same with vista
    common misconception held by all people who haven't been looking at candy long enough. MS had this stlying comming up since XP. (check channel9 for the latest stuff, and MSDN:labs)
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus
    Open Office is very much second place in useability, the simple test of this is which does my mum prefer?

    Or what do the staff who are mostly 6th form educated, what can they use? MS Office.

    The problem is they seam to off gone nuts with the GUI, and its going to take some getting used to for most people, which negates the low/no training cost. The fact is i'd pay £100 for office at most, but i'd want everything (VISO, were is the OO tool for that?)

    OO is also very much in second place on features + functions, they've only got calc to support as many rows as excel in version 2.0! (now to most programmers this shows there very lazy, in "good practice").

    OO also has one big problem, its portable, which means it runs equally badly on every platform. .Net is microsoft proprietry stuff, which MS are going to be making full use of (apparently!)

    Now whilst this screen candy does nothing for me, it would be foolish to think MS haven't got this figured out, they know that the majority of their income is made from office.

    I am a fan of Office and I love it it has some great features.... however I wouldn't consider moving to OO (I have tried it) without it having OneNote and Visio equivalents - quite possibly my most used programs

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt1eD
    I am a fan of Office and I love it it has some great features.... however I wouldn't consider moving to OO (I have tried it) without it having OneNote and Visio equivalents - quite possibly my most used programs
    Don't mention OneNote, there are OO + Mac fans present, they will just ignore it, because the amazing tablet PC scares them. Just like saying the lack of tablet PC advantage taken nature of OO (it does obviously support it, just no digital ink).
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    THe expoting to PDF seems to be the only useful feature added in office 12, at least chaging the GUI will change the whole. "I'm used to MS office" argument, and give open office a new lease of life. One note is probable the only thing i'd miss if i changed to open office.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus
    Don't mention OneNote, there are OO + Mac fans present, they will just ignore it, because the amazing tablet PC scares them. Just like saying the lack of tablet PC advantage taken nature of OO (it does obviously support it, just no digital ink).
    lol digital ink is quite useful in a tablet pc !

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    Wonder if they have fixed that appalling paragraph numbering in Word? And given a reveal codes so you can stop W£ord doing waht it thinks is best. Trouble with most MS products is that they are fine if yiu want to do what the app wants you to do - layout, format etc. As soon as you want to be creative or original - forget it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus
    common misconception held by all people who haven't been looking at candy long enough. MS had this stlying comming up since XP. (check channel9 for the latest stuff, and MSDN:labs)
    ie, m$ are making it more like mac even more, cause mac has eye candy, and everyone that looks at this eye candy likes it (normally)
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