With the advent of Open Office 2.0...

[Merlyn3D]

I tried Open Office 2.0 beta about a week ago and I thought it worked pretty well. They're still ridding it of bugs so it's still in beta, but it truly looks like a good alternative to MS Office. I think once 2.0 comes out I'll try to convert over to it.

 

[notfred]

What do I need an office suite for, anyway?

 

[Drakkon]

I use too much microsoft crap (sbs, exchange, project, access) that i can't switch over unless they find a way to create modules that can interact with all of it...

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Considering that I don't have to pay for MS Office to legally use it, I'll still continue to use MS Office. However, for non-work computers, I'll probably check out Open Office 2.

I think that if Outlook were sold separately from Office, MS Office sales would plummet. I would gladly pay a reasonable price to use Outlook 2003 as a stand-alone product and Open Office.

 

[FoBoT]

i have office 2003 installed, why should i mess with it?

 

[Jzero]

Unless it's significantly less crash-prone than the current version, I won't be switching....although I do use it at home since it's ok for what I do there.

 

[SaturnX]

Originally posted by: Nik
Considering that I don't have to pay for MS Office to legally use it, I'll still continue to use MS Office. However, for non-work computers, I'll probably check out Open Office 2.

I think that if Outlook were sold separately from Office, MS Office sales would plummet. I would gladly pay a reasonable price to use Outlook 2003 as a stand-alone product and Open Office.

You mean like this:

Outlook 2003 @ Amazon.com

You've always been able to buy Office components seperately, and it really doesn't seem like Office sales are plumeting.

--Mark

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: SaturnX

Originally posted by: Nik
Considering that I don't have to pay for MS Office to legally use it, I'll still continue to use MS Office. However, for non-work computers, I'll probably check out Open Office 2.

I think that if Outlook were sold separately from Office, MS Office sales would plummet. I would gladly pay a reasonable price to use Outlook 2003 as a stand-alone product and Open Office.

You mean like this:

Outlook 2003 @ Amazon.com

You've always been able to buy Office components seperately, and it really doesn't seem like Office sales are plumeting.

--Mark

Oh snap. Haha that's funny because just last summer I was making sales for individual office products. haha oh man I suck.

Still, $89 is too much.

 

[trmiv]

My use for Office suites is mainly at work (I do use excel at home), and I don't have to pay for it of course, so I won't be swtching.

 

[Ns1]

most of us here probably aren't paying for ms office anyway

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: SaturnX

Originally posted by: Nik
Considering that I don't have to pay for MS Office to legally use it, I'll still continue to use MS Office. However, for non-work computers, I'll probably check out Open Office 2.

I think that if Outlook were sold separately from Office, MS Office sales would plummet. I would gladly pay a reasonable price to use Outlook 2003 as a stand-alone product and Open Office.

You mean like this:

Outlook 2003 @ Amazon.com

You've always been able to buy Office components seperately, and it really doesn't seem like Office sales are plumeting.

--Mark

Oh snap. Haha that's funny because just last summer I was making sales for individual office products. haha oh man I suck.

Still, $89 is too much.

Get it used, same site $20 bucks

 

[Anubis]

ive been useing open office for years, no need IMO to use MS Office

and Thunderbird > outlook

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Anubis
ive been useing open office for years, no need IMO to use MS Office

and Thunderbird > outlook

Outlook has way more features than Thunderbird does. There are only certain applications that I will accept a dumbed-down replacement for. Thunderbird works great, but I like the extra "bloat" about Outlook because I actually use it.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I get MSDN Universal for work, so MS Office comes "free" with my dev tools.

(Though I did put OpenOffice 1.x on my mom's computer recently)

 

[Joemonkey]

here at work we use exchange 2003 with Outlook, using public folders and calendaring. We also have a few pieces of legal software that only work with Outlook and Word,k so switching to Linux or Open Office is not feasible.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Only thing MS I used at home is Win2k.

OE has been forcibly removed.
IE is largely unused.
Office hasn't been installed for a long time.

 

[Staples]

I am still using Office 2000. It has everything I ever need. I don't see how Word could really improve.

 

[paulip88]

I'd still be happy with MS Word 5.1a that I used waaaay back when. As for OpenOffice, I haven't tried it. I have tried StarOffice for a while (it's predecessor) and it was pretty slow. Since the package still runs on Java, I can't imagine it being quite as fast as MS Office (I can't believe I said that).

On a side note... More most typing I use gmail or notepad. I use Excel for one spreadsheet, and I rarely use the other things. Sure, if I had to pay for MS Office it would be a different story, but I get site license.