[plug] Office 2003 review

[Chris Caston]

I would be interested in hearing how many OpenOffice users are out
there. Obviously every system I sell comes with OO.o but a lot of places
don't give the customer an Office suite unless they buy MS Office.

Instead of wasting $239ex on Office 2003 basic edition. Use
OpenOffice.org for free and sponsor a child in a developing nation for a
year.
 
regards,

Chris Caston

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 22:58, Garry wrote:
> Maybe the press isn't as tame as Bill and Steve would like....
> 
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44570-2003Oct18.html
> 
> <quote>
> 
> ......cut
> 
> But Word, Excel and PowerPoint, the other core Office tools, have barely
> changed. If it weren't for a new, garish blue theme, few home users
> could tell the 2003 editions from their predecessors. (That gaudy window
> dressing, incidentally, can be turned off only in Windows XP's Displays
> control panel, at the cost of switching the entire XP desktop to the
> old, plain-gray look; Windows 2000 escapes this aesthetic offense.)
> 
> ......cut
> 
>  Every time Microsoft puts a bit of the Web into one of its
> applications, it seems to leave a big hole open for virus writers.
> Unlike Corel's WordPerfect or the free OpenOffice, Word still can't save
> a document in the popular, widely compatible Portable Document Format
> (PDF).
> 
> .....cut
> 
> If e-mail rules your world, Outlook 2003 offers tough competition for
> pretty much every other program around (if you trust Microsoft when it
> says it has fixed the vulnerabilities that allowed so many viruses to
> spread via Outlook). But the rest of Office 2003 is a yawner. Most
> people at home can comfortably sleep right through this upgrade cycle.
> 
> </quote>
> 
> 
> 8^)==
> 
> Garry
> 
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