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Microsoft says Open Office.org 10 years behind - TechAmok
Microsoft says Open Office.org 10 years behind - [technology] 06:56 AM EST - Mar,06 2006 - post a comment In a recent interview with IT Wire, general manager of business strategy for
the Information Worker Group at Microsoft,
Alan
Yates expressed the opinion that Open Office is at the same level that MS
office was around 10 years ago:
According to Yates, there are very good reasons for people to pay $500 or more for even the soon to be superseded version of Microsoft Office as opposed to paying nothing for a copy of Open Office 2.0, which the Linux crowd will tell you does the job just as well.
"It really depends upon what job you're trying to do. Certainly, if you're just trying to write a few notes or something, Open Office is just fine. The truth is though that Open Office.org is really designed to solve the problems that Microsoft focussed on 10 years ago when the model was an individual user working at their individual PC," says Yates. "The world and Microsoft software has grown way beyond that to make it very easy to do what used to be very hard things. Most documents today are not done by one individual. They're done by multiple people working on a project at once. Essentially, Open Office is fine if you have very limited needs because it was really designed around what Microsoft Office products were designed around 10 years ago."
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