[mdlug] IBM plants Linux on the desktop

[marytee]

Just to weigh in on the OpenOffice/MSOffice discussion--

As a user of MSWord's advanced features at work, I can say that it's 
difficult to use OpenOffice because its equivalent is not so much 
equivalent, especially things like nested tables, sections, etc.

One thing that you can do is change to interface so that the buttons and 
look resemble MSOffice. One thing about OO is that it's more flexible 
for customizing, IMHO.

Mary

Michael S. Mikowski wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>   
>>> From: Michael S. Mikowski
>>>
>>> Could you share /why/ she wanted back?  Were there
>>> specific features or performance issues?
>>>       
>>  "I do not like the Linux office programs and I feel
>> like I have given them the old college try.  I simply
>> do not care for it... when it takes me three hours to
>> do something I could have done in one hour, it is not
>> benefiting myself nor our family."
>>
>>     
>
> Thanks for responding Ray.  I really appreciate it.
>
> You know, she /is/ right in a way.  OOffice really does 
> suck for productivity, /as does/ MS Office.  I do think 
> she could do everything just as well in OOffice, but hey, 
> maybe she will reconsider when a whole new 
> interface "ribbon" interface shows up for the "the doubly 
> locked-in" edition (a.k.a "Vista").
>
> At any rate, I could do stuff in Applix 2-4x faster than 
> either of them, since the windows were not modal style, 
> but traditional Unix style.  That meant I could open the 
> image editor, the paragraph editor, the table editor, 
> etc., all at once and keep them open and use them 
> contextually.  And it was fantastically fast (like 1s to 
> open most documents).  OLE was superior as well.
>
> Too bad it got swallowed up with that "has to work 
> flawlessly with MS Office" proprietary vendor lock-in 
> shit.  Honestly, the /only/ suite I /can/ consider using 
> outside of MS Office is OOffice due to compatibility 
> issues.
>
> $0.02
>
> Cheers, Mike
>