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Word - we dropped the ball

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Aloone_Jonez:
Large firms often have site licence for a certain number of seats rather than paying for every single copy of the software installed so I don't see how it will make any difference unless they want to upgrade or buy a load more computers. If a company is worried, they just need to buy more licences before the deadline.

davidnix71:
Think OO's size is bad? I just went looking for the OSX dmg installer for MacTex (LaTeX native for OSX) and gagged. 1.3 GB.

Aloone_Jonez:
Wtf it's normally only about 200MB, if not less. The *NIX version always seems to be larger than the Windows version.

I remember downloading OpenOffice when I was on dialup, it wasn't too bad. I remember leaving it to download overnight. I had to use a download manager and auto-disconnect and redial every hour because my telephone service provider only gave me the first hour of any call free.

May be LaTeX is responsible for half the bloat?

AbiWord has a LaTeX add-on.

Lead Head:
Yeah, OpenOffice is about 130-200MB last I remember (which was a few days ago anyways), which is not nearly CD Size (700MB).

As far as  the ban on Word goes, I'm quite surprised. Generally companies like Microsoft will just give in and pay what the small company wants instead of taking it to court.

reactosguy:
I hope Microsoft delays the fix... so far, Word is BS, and even the Ribbon is a large, distracting strip of tabs. It's nothing but eye candy designed to appeal to the clueless.

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