Office 2010 – Will OpenOffice Ever Catch Up? April 18th, 2009
Firefox is often held up as the prime example of the power of the open source movement, a distributed network of people collaborating (albeit in a guided way) taking on the Microsoft behemoth. Few people discuss OpenOffice with such regar. In fact, many people have never even touched OO.
I am a current user of OO, update regularly and will some time get around throwing them some dollars. However, I think that that time is nigh for myself and others to return to the MS Office fold. We are falling behind. When Office 2007 came out, I was intrigued by its new ribbon system, it seemed so intuitive and clean. Obviously Microsoft was pushing the envelope here. I love that. My OO install looked and worked (it still does!) like a inbred clone of Office 2003 with some features turned off, I grumbled a little bit. I was torn.
But, when I rang up the price tag to get what I wanted from Microsoft, I just could not bring myself to cough up hundreds of dollars for something that I was surviving without. However, that is now over. Miscrosoft is now talking actively about Office 2010 (take a look here), and I came to a realization: OO is slowing me down.
We all now that speed of work and life is only becoming more and more important, wasting time is almost heresy in my books. And when I noticed that OO is simply archaic, slow, and with an annoyingly bad spell checker. I cannot wait around for them to improve the system; the great 3.0 release was largely a flop for me.
Free is good, and open source is great, but I do not have the spare time to lost. Office 2010 will be installed on my computer when it comes out.
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April 18th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Awesome. It’s looking like I might be making the same switch as you.
And those screen shots are soooo preeeeety *drools*
July 9th, 2009 at 11:14 am
OpenOffice is one of my favorite office suites, just imagine – you can write advanced scripts in Python, instead of – VBA in that MS…