Re: [News] Glimpse at OpenOffice.org in Education

[Gordon <gbplinux@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ezekiel wrote:
> Gordon wrote:
>
> > wispygalaxy wrote:
> > > Gordon wrote:
> > >
> > > > wispygalaxy wrote:
> > > > > OO.org is so versatile and useful in many domains.  It's a complete
> > > > > myth
> > > > > that it's only for students who can't afford MS Office.  I can get MS
> > > > > Office for a discount from my school, but I am very happy with OO.org.
> > > > > It's about the features, really.
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't need to do anything fancy in a word processor, so why should I
> > > > > bother installing MS Word?  I could use it in Wine if I wanted to- but
> > > > > it
> > > > > will be sitting there, unused.  The MS Word proponents are
> > > > > overestimating
> > > > > what average people do with their apps.  OO.org takes care of the tasks
> > > > > average computer users want to get accomplished.  I love it!
> > > > Well said. 75% of Office users in corporate environments only use 25% of
> > > > the functionality....
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > It's sad that corporate people are so lazy that they don't bother to
> > > research better software solutions.  They think that if you pay for
> > > software, it's better.
> > They use it not because they pay for it but because "that's what we
> > always use". 
> > Many moons ago Office was bundled free with Windows and so 
> I'm calling bullshit on this claim that "MS Office used to bundled for free
> with Windows."

Not at all. You are obviously just too young to remember. certainly it 
was bundled with some Server OS's (back in the mid-eighties) and 
possibly with at least one version of desktop.

> > the corporate sector was sucked into using it. 
> They used it because it was the first good word processor that ran on
> Windows. P
Err no. WORDSTAR (Remember that?) was far superior to the first version 
of Word and THAT ran on Windows.