On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Ricardo Campos wrote:
When will people learn? I just had to spend £12000 on behalf of my company to buy 70 licenses for Office XP when our computers can't handle it so we're on Office 97. But they won't let us buy '97 licenses. GREED, anyone?
I would say that was cheap for 70 M$ Office licences, you sure you got the right ones? or did you get the cheapy cut down version of office?
I have 2 words for this; OPEN SOURCE. Products such as word processors just don't improve that greatly from release to release. For most office purposes all they are is a glorified typewriter. Why spend the cash? >:|
Unfortunatly for the majority of users they need the familiarity of M$, although the good news is the StarOffice 6 has just gone into beta preview stage so maybe this will provide a real alternative to M$ Office, albeit not an open source alternative.
StarOffice would already be there if it wasn't for what I call the following problems which are having a stupid desktop trying to be Windows and be a web browser at the same time with all the finesse of a ballet dancing walrus, taking up more memory than M$ Office and crashing at least as often (if not more) and not being able to load all M$ Office documents.
Now from what I've heard is they junked the desktop which is a great move, and they have improved the Office compatability which will make a huge difference. If they manage to stop it from being such a memory hog and crashing so often then I will only need windows for playing games in future :-)
Adam