Tuesday, March 31, 2009

OO.o and MS Office

Office had been the dominant office suite for decades now, but can free and low-priced office suites kick it out of it position such as OpenOffice, iWork, and StarOffice? Today I'm going to show you two office suite that will fit your day:Microsoft Office 2007 and OpenOffice 3. As you may know already, OpenOffice is free and can be installed on as many computers you want. Both office suites have their ups and downs. Microsoft Office Enterprise + Visio + Project took up 2559 MB, while OpenOffice only took 337 MB. An explantion for this is that OpenOffice does not have a program to make brocures and newspapers(Publisher), an email client(Outlook), a calendar app(Outlook), a sync app(Groove), an app to manage your projects(Project), or a note app(OneNote). However, most people would not need all these apps, so OpenOffice would suit them fine. On the other hand, professionals and power users would prefer MS Office for those extra applications would be useful.
OpenOffice 3 can also save in more formats than MS Office 2007.

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