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JACK KAPICA

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Latest comment posted at 11:38 AM EDT 04/12/06

Software giant launches major upgrade to Office suite, but most of the changes have been made for business users and consumers may be unimpressed ...Read the full article

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  1. I F from Canada writes: Openoffice.org offers free software (free as in speech and free as in beer) that performs the 'office' tasks required by 99.9% of the population. Save yourself five hundred dollars ($500) and download openoffice.org.
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    Darryl Moore from Canada writes: Jack, you might also suggest that consumers upgrade to OpenOffice 2. Why pay any money at all for a Microsoft product when for all consumers and even most business there is an excellent alternative which is 100% free. As in free beer; As in freedom; As in virus free; Sorry no free love. http://www.openoffice.org
  3. andy c from Canada writes: At work I use ms office extensively. At home I rarely use any office programs but have MS office installed (I think it’s 2003). when the time comes that I have to make extensive use of a office suite at home that's the point where I will be looking at my options (by that time hopefully Google will have a competing solution but that's another discussion)
  4. Gary Layng from Canada writes: At home I use OpenOffice.org, and at work I'm in a position to push this solution. If I can convince the Powers that Be, that is what we will be migrating to, not Office 2007. We work hard for our dollars and can't afford to blow it on proprietary software when open-source software will do the same job without the licence fees.
  5. Ken Brown from Toronto, Canada writes: I use WordPerfect at home and Word at work, and much prefer WordPerfect. The only negative is that Word has made it difficult to exchange files, but I presume the open-source feature will reduce that issue.
  6. Steven A from Hamilton, Canada writes: Open Office in my experience is about as good as what you pay for it. Numerous times I've lost formatting, gotten broken characters, or simply been unable to open an Open Office document that's been saved as .doc; for personal use, okay, but for anything that gets passed around, OO is next to useless. It's an impressive effort, but absolutely not nearly as good as MS Office. For people who need to use an office suite every day, spend the $200; are we really that cheap?
  7. shel silverstein from Brentwood Bay BC, Canada writes: What is extremely bizarre about the 'articles/advertisements' about the launch of Vista, the new operating system by Microsoft was the complete lack of mention of the Mac Operating systems, first Panther then Tiger in 2005 and now soon Leopard (which will allow you to run Windows XP at the same time if you want) which are leaps and bounds ahead of anything Microsoft will have in Vista which as noted will require new machines to run Vista. The smart businesses first choice to replace an aging Windows system should be Macs with an unlimited client license for only $1200, 10 client for $600. Over 2,000 widgets available for Tiger already. Check out apple website if you are in business and G and M if you are a business magazine you might want to mention Apple in articles about Vista if you want to appear somewhat credible. Google is not exactly Microsofts real competitor, a search engine is a search engine, easily replaceable - People searching and getting results that only include companies that pay to be listed wont last forever.
  8. Cameron Stevens from GTA, Canada writes: I'm all for Change for the Microsoft Office Suite and while mammoth in size and features, their user community demands it. Unfortunately this increases costs and overhead, and with Microsoft claiming that piracy substatially increases the cost of the product, I'm happily promoting OpenOffice.org (version 2 is a must) as an alternative.

    It takes a bit to get used to, it's not the same and you need to find the features you could find blind-folded in MS-Office, but the product is good. Free? Yes, it's free but if no one contributes it will die. Please contribute.

    Take the leap... OpenOffice.org v2 is a wise choice and this is the perfect time to leap.

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