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I'm actually using OpenOffice Writer
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| I've probably written a dozen or more times about how I think that OpenOffice
| is the killer app of free, open-source software, and is the software suite
| that most worries the folks at Microsoft while empowering more and more
| regular people every day ... but that I have little call to use it myself.
|
| That has changed.
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http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2008/06/im-actually-using-openoffice-w.html
link to get templates and dictionaries online
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| Dictionaries provided as extensions will be able to use the online update
| mechanism so that an update of dictionaries will be much more easy in the
| future. Author will be able to update their dictionaries independent from the
| OpenOffice.org release schedule so that OpenOffice.org user will take
| advantage of new versions of dictionaries much faster than before. The
| integration of dictionaries with a license incompatible to the OpenOffice.org
| (can't be bundled with OpenOffice.org) will then also more easy.
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/link_to_get_templates_and
There's also PDF editing now (import of PDF is possible).
Recent:
The Fall of Microsoft Office
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| On the same day that the state of New York published a report supporting open
| formats for electronic documents, mighty Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) said that
| it would support the open-source ODF format in Office 2007. Redmond's own
| Open Office XML specification may be heading for the great Recycle Bin in the
| sky, never to come back.
|
| [...]
|
| I can't say that Google or Sun or anybody else just won a bigger share of the
| office software market, and if they did, it won't help their revenue or
| profits directly anyway. But it's clear as day that Microsoft just took a
| serious hit, and the impact may take a long time to make itself felt but it
| will come.
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http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/05/27/the-fall-of-microsoft-office.aspx
Is Microsoft Office in trouble?
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| And, now Microsoft isn't hurrying to support its own format, but it is moving
| to support PDF and ODF... Could it be that all those copies of Office 2007
| Microsoft boasts of selling are collecting dust at reseller and retailer
| warehouses instead of being used on office systems? Could users be sticking
| with their older copies of Office and when they do want to move to something
| newer, they're moving to OpenOffice and Google instead?
|
| Interesting isn't it?
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/is_microsoft_office_in_trouble
Is Office the new Netscape?
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| One of the cornerstones of Microsoft's competitive strategy over the years
| has been to redefine competitors' products as features of its own products.
| Whenever some upstart PC software company started to get traction with a new
| application - the Netscape browser is the most famous example - Microsoft
| would incorporate a version of the application into its Office suite or
| Windows operating system, eroding the market for the application as a
| standalone product and starving its rival of economic oxygen (ie, cash). It
| was an effective strategy as well as a controversial one.
|
| Now, though, the tables may be turning. Google is trying to pull a Microsoft
| on Microsoft by redefining core personal-productivity applications -
| calendars. word processing, spreadsheets, etc. - as features embedded in
| other products. There's a twist, though. Rather than just incorporating the
| applications as features in its own products, Google is offering them up to
| other companies, particularly big IT vendors, to incorporate as features in
| their products.
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http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/05/one_of_the_corn.php
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