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voidmain:
I am certainly no fan of the Microsoft lover magazine known as PC Magazine.  But that fruit cake John C. Dvorak sometimes comes up with some good ones. Here is a nice one about OpenOffice.org 1.0:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,427069,00.asp

creedon:

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
I am certainly no fan of the Microsoft lover magazine known as PC Magazine.  But that fruit cake John C. Dvorak sometimes comes up with some good ones. Here is a nice one about OpenOffice.org 1.0:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,427069,00.asp
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I agree; I'm using OpenOffice 1.03 in Debian 3.0; I guess I don't have to worry about Microsoft's little coding tricks, Huh?
OpenOffice is a really good application, it seems to do everything I require of an office suite, and it's open source; that alone makes it better than anything closed source.

Refalm:
The only thing I've seen OpenOffice.org Write lacking so far, is a minor selection of tables and no Dutch spelling-checker support (OpenOffice.org itself is completely in Dutch).

Calum:
i am having some problems with openoffice.org 1.0. I got the fonts to work, after a couple of false starts, and got it to install as proper network/client stuff too, but it seems not to be able to do complicated M$office2000 .doc files too well (these are ones with text boxes and tables and all that crap) HOWEVER i am using 1.0 which is a few months old. Is it worth a download of whatever the newest one is (for linux this is)? (bearing in mind i dial up?)
Sorry, this was off topic, but this thread is just callled 'openoffice' after all....

oh yes, and re: the article:
Rather thin on actual facts, and it is written from the point of view of "how can the marvellous Microsoft beat this open source upstart?", However, i think that it is by and large, on the money...
Onward the revolution, i say!  :D

[ August 10, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

dbl221:
A software developer at M$ once told me that "eventually thay will through
enough man hours at open-source and then M$ is toast"

Lets hope he is right.

As the quality and quantity of available apps for
linux increases we will see more and more linux
users world-wide.  Add to that the M$ dirty tricks
and business folks will eventually have a valid reason
to switch desktops to linux.

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