__/ [ Scott W ] on Thursday 29 June 2006 13:54 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> __/ [ Gordon ] on Thursday 29 June 2006 13:00 \__
>>
>>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd want some persuasive reason to spend money on something from
>>>> Microsoft, which won't run on most platforms and is proprietary, as
>>>> an alternative to using something which is open, and will run on most
>>>> platforms, and has no purchase price.
>>>>
>>>> It's hard to imagine why anyone would even consider buying Office 2007
>>> Interestingly, there's been a slow-down of upgrades in the business
>>> world: Office 2000 was SO much better than Office 97 that almost everyone
>>> upgraded; The marginal increase in functionality provided by Office 2002
>>> was not as great as that from 97 to 2000 so not as many upgraded; and the
>>> perceived increase in functionality between office 2002 and Office 2003
>>> was very little for the large additional cost, so a very great number of
>>> SMEs did NOT upgrade to Office 2003. Of course that doesn't take into
>>> account the support factor such as security updates - eventually ALL MS
>>> Office users will probably be forced to upgrade or reject MS Office
>>> altogether.....
>>
>> That's an intersting point, Gordon. I might also add a
>> neglected factor here, which is backward compatibility
>> versus extension. One reason why businesses are often forced
>> to migrate are other departments whose use of Office
>> requires recency of versions from their partners, for
>> version compatibility. Take, for example, OpenOffice 1 and
>> Office 2003. Next week I'll be presenting at a conference
>> and the format of the presentation will be PowerPoint. I
>> never touched PowerPoint (not in many, many years), but my
>> Supervisor embedded elements (namely animations) that as
>> OpenOffice 'sanitation' will lose.
>>
>
> iirc MS Powerpoint has the ability to create "self-containing"
> presentations that can be run without the need for Powerpoint. or was
> that in older versions?
Pack-and-go is probably still available, but I don't have any Windows boxes.
Some more binary tarballs is the last thing I need in my filespace. Even
OpenOffice is unlikely to decipher such proprietary junk, which only runs on
Windows (a dying breed). I wouldn't count on Wine either. Lastly, any
compilation (e.g. PDF/PostScript) is, in absence of the source, a bad idea.
Best wishes,
Roy
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