Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

I'm asking just out of interest since it is MS we are talking about here.

[xyle_one]

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i have open office      

[ August 12, 2003: Message edited by: ecsyle:951 ]

[jasonlane]

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open office  

[gump420]

not only a no, but a HELL NO

I downloaded the demo of Word for kicks.  Complete and total piece of fucking shit.  And the demo crashed like crazy.  Isn't a demo supposed to show off the strong points of the product or something like that?  Oh yeah, M$'s only strong point is crashing.

[Pissed_Macman]

Microsoft doesn't have to show off the fine points of anything anymore. People just fall in line like zombies now even if the products are utter shit.

[M51DPS]

My mom owns a pirated copy for OS X, I hate it. The day microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners. For me it's not only a no, but a hell no-you-stupid assholes-who-keep-trying-to-sell-me-shit-that-I-don't-need.

[dot.this]

No. I'm totally MS-free and intend to stay that way.

For Office apps, all I need are a text editor (Xnotes or Text Edit in Aqua, Nedit in X11) and a word processor (AbiWord, but KWrite is okay too). If I ever need a spreadsheet or database I'd use the KOffice ones.

I used AppleWorks in OS 9, but now that I know exactly what sort of apps I need, I have found free apps that work well for me.

[billy_gates]

I won't be "buying" it, if you know what I mean.

That means I will use my current copy duh... wut did u think i meant?

Seriously Open Office confuses me.  Generally the reason I don't use MS software is because of its terrible UI.  However, Open Office is just a horribly bad copy of Office?  I don't understand.  Does Open Office even run outside of X11 yet in OSX.

I find Word X to be perfectly satisfactory... and ultra compatible.  The Mac version of Office is waaay better.  If I write an "Englilsh" paper in Word X I get it done in about half of the time than if I used Word XP.  I also include Jeffrey "The Yellow Dart" Bergier in my document.  Word X has all sorts of features built into the window that in Word XP you have to go find in the menus, then you can't type while its open.  My favorite built in tool in Word X that is not built in in Word XP is word count.  Damn I love that thing just sitting at the bottom of my word document.  Telling me how I am getting ever closer to being finished with this damn essay

Just my 2

[suselinux]

No one likes corel word perfect?

[jasonlane]

quote:Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:
I won't be "buying" it, if you know what I mean.

That means I will use my current copy duh... wut did u think i meant?

Seriously Open Office confuses me.  Generally the reason I don't use MS software is because of its terrible UI.  However, Open Office is just a horribly bad copy of Office?  I don't understand.  Does Open Office even run outside of X11 yet in OSX.

Just my 2

[M51DPS]

<slightly off topic>That was one of the funniest e-mails I've ever seen, with Kyle *The Yellow Dart* Smith.</slightly off topic>

Soon I'm going to help get OpenOffice on one of my friends laptops, a Mac. Does anyone know if it's very hard to get going?

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by Zardoz:


Not yet, but Panther won't it run natively? hmmmm.

Anyway Open Office is good, just out of beta so some improvements are still needed. However it beats the shit out of Office 11 pseudo-xml, it on the other hand writes proper xml.

I found a good screenshot.... was gonna install it but it was a 120MB download.

http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/screenshots/images/compare_ms_osx.png

now first off... see how MS Word is not AntiAliased... well normally it is... this is before apple updated the Carbon Anti Aliasing capability... this is OS X 10.1... way old.  Now you see Open Office, in panther it will look exactly like that except the window decoration will be the standard OSX window decoration.

I'm sorry, it would be an embarrassment to open something that ugly on my OSX system.

[jasonlane]

quote:Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:

I'm sorry, it would be an embarrassment to open something that ugly on my OSX system.

               

 it works though.

[ August 14, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by Zardoz:



                     

 it works though.

[ August 14, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]

thats not good enough for me.  For me to be happy it has to work Mac style.  Ultra Stable, Ultra Easy, Ultra Sexy (Pretty if you prefer the term), and depending on the App ultra compatible (office apps are one of those kinds of apps)

[gump420]

quote:Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:


thats not good enough for me.  For me to be happy it has to work Mac style.  Ultra Stable, Ultra Easy, Ultra Sexy (Pretty if you prefer the term), and depending on the App ultra compatible (office apps are one of those kinds of apps)

I'm a Mac user myself, but all that just sounds Ultra Stupid . . .  

[ August 15, 2003: Message edited by: maghor ]