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Re:Microsoft is Dead by hello_moto on Friday April 06, 2007 @08:23PM (#9784)
May I know whom attacking MS Office?

Last time I checked, none of the online web two point ooh software can open big documents. These web-apps only match probably 20% of MS Office features and it's simply not enough these days when people are more tech-savvy than in the past.

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Re:Microsoft is Dead by gibsonf1 on Saturday April 07, 2007 @01:20AM (#9912)
The point is not what Web 2.0 offers today, it's what Web 2.0 offers next year, and the year after. Whether you see it or not, the tide has turned.

Evolution:

-Mainframes as the computing platform (IBM)

--- PCs as the computing platform (Apple)

------- the OS as the computing platform (MS Windows) (Where Apple missed the boat by only offering their OS on proprietary hardware)

------------- the Internet as the computing platform (Google) (where MS will probably miss the boat)

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Re:Microsoft is Dead by bootload on Friday April 06, 2007 @08:40PM (#9794)
'... whom attacking MS Office? (sic) ...'

every time I fire-up and use OpenOffice, I hear the 'cry' of another microsofty programmers` heart, breaking in two ... guess I fall in the second half.

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Re:Microsoft is Dead by BrandonM on Saturday April 07, 2007 @05:37AM (#9977)
If you haven't heard about a free program that does everything that Microsoft Office does and more, then you should really be looking at OpenOffice.

1. It's free

2. It can read all Microsoft and open formats

3. It can export as PDF

4. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, ... (written in Java I believe)

5. It's open source

6. Various other features have been added which MS now adds to MS Office in order to catch up (like auto-completion).

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Re:Microsoft is Dead by microsoftx on Sunday April 08, 2007 @02:12PM (#10472)
It's buggy
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Re:Microsoft is Dead by BrandonM on Sunday April 08, 2007 @10:56PM (#10628)
...and Microsoft's software isn't?
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Re:Microsoft is Dead by rasputnik on Saturday April 07, 2007 @10:15AM (#10038)
For 80% of us, that 20% will do.
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