openoffice is dead?

[Colin McGregor]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 6:34 PM,  <phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> A couple of years ago I pushed Open Office to my spouse, who was using
> Microsoft Office at the time. It was not successful, and I got an earful
> then and on many subsequent occasions about multiple inadequacies of Open
> Office.
>
> More recently, needing something for her Mac and daunted by the outlay for
> MO, she tried OO again and really liked it.
>
> I haven't much noticed these improvements, it does what we need to do for
> spreadsheets, wordsmithing and presentations. But I guess they've been
> enhancing the product over that time.

Well, I am currently running OpenOffice, and I am more-or-less happy
with it. That noted I can see myself dropping OpenOffice at some point
down the road for LibreOffice ( http://www.libreoffice.org/ ), a fork
from OpenOffice. Regardless as to what I do end up running, it will be
some form of free software solution.

> On one occasion I was in the lineup at Canada Computers and noticed the
> guy ahead of me was spending a Vast Fortune on Microsoft Office stuff. I
> really had to bite my tongue not to advise him to try OO. The Canada
> Computer people probably would have thrown me into the street.

Last time I used Microsoft Office was part of a short term contract
(writing Linux server documentation) where the employer required that
everything be done on-site and that the machines provided were running
MS-Windows / MS Office. Shrug, what can I say, for enough $$ I'll use
Microsoft software, but for my own personal stuff, forget it...

Colin

> Peter
>
>
>> William Park wrote:
>>> Sun did openoffice just to embed their Java into it.  Honestly, I don't
>>> know why people are using OpenOffice.  For God's sake, get the real
>>> thing, and support Microsoft Inc.
>>
>> I think there is a smiley face missing from the above.
>>
>> If Microsoft came out with Office for Linux I might consider using it,
>> but,
>> I'm quite happy with OpenOffice so I don't see much reason to switch to
>> something else.
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