Microsoft Office vs. OpenOffice
General Tips July 21st, 2005
It is quite interesting to note that OpenOffice saves MS Word files with better efficiency when compared to MS Office. Tests here showed that the file saved in OpenOffice Writer was less than half the size of the file saved in MS Word containing absolutely the same content! Considering it is free, TechWhack would recommend you to give it a try!
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Something about OpenOffice:
OpenOffice.org is a free software / open source software office suite, including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, and database components. It is available for many different platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Unix-like systems including Solaris and Linux, and Mac OS X. It is intended to be compatible with, and compete with, Microsoft Office, it supports the OpenDocument standard for data interchange, and can be used at no cost.
OpenOffice.org is based on the codebase of StarOffice, an office suite developed by StarDivision acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The source code of the suite was released as an open source project in July 2000, with the aim of breaking the market dominance of Microsoft Office by providing a lower-cost, high-quality and open alternative. The source code for the application suite was previously available under two different software licenses: the LGPL and SISSL; from v2.0, it is only available under LGPL.
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There are still a lot of issues with compatibility which i have personally faced and had to redo a lot of stuff…
Some functions with ‘rand()’ didn’t work in open office and did in MS also other things which worked vice versa.
Waiting for a standard to be established, then MS can keep their expensive stuff to themselves
My client: I wil send u a file. Its in Excel.
Me: Ok no issues.
Client: I have added some Macros to it, you must be able to runs this.
Me:ummm I have OO, I mean open office.
Client: Whats that????
Me:Alternate to MS Office.
OO is good only if u hate MS. Excel still rules. I have not used any MS Office related things for last 2 years. Totally OO. But I still find many issues with OO. The kid needs to grow up to bring the daemon down.
I switched to Open Office two years ago and so far, I LOVE IT! All the same programs as MS Office Professional, including a database program, a presentation program like PowerPoint, spreadsheets, etc. MS Office always used to crash on me and I would loose my documents, but I have never had a problem with Open Office. The program definitely has fewer bugs, functions faster, is sleeeker and has pretty much the same layout so it is easy to use. I have Open Office for Windows and will never buy MS Office ever again. The best part is the compatibility. Using Open Office, you can save documents in MS Office formats so that you can still share docs with people who do not have Open Office and you can even share docs with people who use Macs. Why doesnt every software maker do this!?!?!
“It should be Open Office SAVES” instead of “Open office save” in the first line