____/ Peter Köhlmann on Tuesday 11 September 2007 23:38 : \____
> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Peter Köhlmann
>> <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:49:22 +0200
>> <fc72h0$jt8$00$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>> http://www.linux.com/feature/118986
>>>
>>> A much more fair and balanced review of the features than you could ever
>>> get from the likes of DFS or Erik F
>>
>> Especially since this is the third review -- but then,
>> OO has gone through a few revs (major and minor), and of
>> course Microsoft is now 2007.
>>
>> He dedicates a bit of vitriol to the "new", "innovative"
>> ribbon, which he describes as a "poor arrangement of
>> items...despite the effort to group related functions
>> in one pane". He's not all that enthralled about OOW's
>> interface either, but apparently he can at least live
>> with it.
>>
>> Microsoft Office (Word) wins templates, outlining,
>> cross-references, and unique features, and ties tables
>> and drawing tools. That's a record of 4, 8, and 2, not
>> exactly a grand showing against what has been characterized
>> as some variant of "cheap hippie-written freeware" (not
>> all that fairly, of course).
>>
>> No mentions regarding spreadsheets (Excel vs. OOCalc or
>> Gnumeric), equation typesetting (unclear whether LyX would
>> be includable here, but OO does have a math option -- which
>> for some reason does not appear to be a TeX derivative),
>> presentation software (Powerpoint vs. Impress), or
>> esoterica such as foreign document import.
>>
>> For a more comprehensive overview, one might consider a
>> four-way shootout with Scribus and KOffice (Kate? kcalc?).
>>
>> So....what did you want to write today? ;-) Both products
>> could use improvement, but OpenOffice seems to have the
>> edge at the moment, at least according to the above article.
>>
>
> It has, at least in stability.
> I have had some Word-docs which crashed Word regularly (due to lots of
> pictures and size of doc in general).
> OO Writer imported them flawlessly, and had no trouble working with them.
> Strangely after rewriting them again as Word-doc, MS Word could work with
> them *again* as well. Seems that Word collects lots of garbage along the
> editing cycle without ever getting rid of it.
>
> Naturally, that does not endear me to work with Word in the first place.
> After all, starting up OO takes 3 seconds (yes, thats all!!) longer than
> starting up MS Office. After that very slight delay, I certainly can't see
> any difference in speed
Why not just TeX it? It does slides, too. By the way, Bruce Byfield's articles
are very objective and he's a reasonable guy. Finally we have something that's
not marketing garbage, but an honest analysis. He forgets to mention the fact
that OOo supports the international standard (ODF), whereas it's a missing
feature in Microsoft Office.
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