On Feb 12, 12:49 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Officious Office
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Everything you know is wrong. The old menus are gone, arrogantly
> | abandoned without a way to get them back even as a "classic" option.
> | Instead you see a "ribbon," a big, ugly tabbed panel of icons and
> | labels that can hog more screen space than your work and sometimes
> | even hide it. You can minimize the ribbon, but you can't avoid it
> | completely or go back to what you know. Just about everything is
> | different, except for keyboard shortcuts and legacy-settings
> | screens buried a few clicks deep.
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> http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0226/050a.html
So I read the article, and searched for ANY Mention of Open Office.
Not a word. Not a bleep. Obviously he hated Office 2007, and it's
likely that many other will, but it would be a much more interesting
article if other competitors were at least MENTIONED!!!
Has Forbes done a review of OpenOffice 2.1?
Here are some other reviews
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/55678.html
Same article in Washington Times
http://washingtontimes.com/technology/20070205-095138-9103r.htm
A review of Office 2007 that mentions OpenOffice
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21144818%5E15302%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
ZDNet offered this little paragraph
http://downloads.zdnet.com/3000-2064-10616855.html
It's amazing what $4 billion in advertizing will get you.
You can even keep the press from covering the competition
without fear of appearing "biased".
I guess that since OpenOffice doesn't have a $4 billion ad
budget, it's not newsworthy that the country could save about
$200 billion by using OpenOffice instead of Office 2007.
> Related:
>
> Bold Redesign Improves Office 2007 But Learning Curve May Be Too Steep for
> Some Users
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "it requires a steep learning curve that many people might rather avoid.
> | In my own tests, I was cursing the program for weeks"
> `----
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> http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116786111022966326-T8UUTIl2b10...
So Walt Mossberg also hates Office 2007.
but he appearantly hasn't even seen OpenOffice 2.1?
I guess he only reviews products of advertizers who spend $100,000/day
in WSJ ads.
> Office 2007 may be Microsoft's Titanic: former Government IT boss
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Bill Gates has been talking up Office 2007 ahead of its business launch
> | on November 30. However, the recently departed deputy CIO of one of
> | Australia's biggest government Microsoft sites believes introducing
> | the new version of Microsoft Office may be the company's biggest
> | ever disaster.
> `----
>
> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7234/53/
Another big bust for Office 2007.
At least he mentions OpenOffice 2.1
<quote>
Meanwhile, Dr Hodgkinson is fairly positive about the prospects in
large enterprises of open source office productivity alternatives to
Microsoft Office, such as Open Office.org 2.0.
"Sites like Singapore Defence have gone with Open Office. The big
issue was thought to be training costs. However, it has proven not to
be a big deal in the case of the Singapore site," Dr Hodgkinson says.
With freely available open source alternatives to Microsoft Office
proving to be viable implementations on large sites, Dr Hodgkinson
believes the signs are ominous for the fate of Office 2007.
</quote>
and
> | The Bad
> | Quite expensive
> | Free applications available that can perform the same tasks
Alluding to OpenOffice?
yep!
<quote>
If your budget won't stretch to MS Office and your requirements are a
bit more intensive or the online requirement doesn't appeal to you,
then you may also want to consider OpenOffice, which includes a word
processor, spreadsheet, database manipulator, image editor,
presentation creator and equation editor. OpenOffice is compatible
with documents from all previous versions of Office and an adaptor for
Office 2007 documents is in the works.
</quote>
> | No major improvements over previous versions
> |
> | The Ugly
> | Too many components seem solely designed to leverage synergies or something
> | No option to revert to old interface
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> http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=37376
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