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From: Snit on 14 Jan 2010 20:58 RonB stated in post hiofvn$8db$1(a)news.eternal-september.org on 1/14/10 6:21 PM: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:57:29 +0000, Gordon wrote: > >> Conor wrote: >>> In article <slrnhkstrh.uit.jedi(a)nomad.mishnet>, JEDIDIAH says... >>>> On 2010-01-13, Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> In article <slrnhksal6.5sr.jedi(a)nomad.mishnet>, JEDIDIAH says... >>>>> >>>>>> Open Office is good enough to apply negative price pressure to >>>>>> MSO. >>>>> OOo is no use to anyone who wants to do more than a basic expenses >>>>> spreadsheet or homework. >>>> ...which as I said before is the vast majority of users. >>>> >>> Wrong. The vast majority of office users are in a corporate >>> environment. OOo is not suitable for their needs. >>> >>> >> And your reasoning for that is? >> OO 3.1 is as every bit as suitable as Office 2003, which you would know >> if you'd used it. Your comments so far tell us you've NEVER used it. > > Exactly. Most people who use Microsoft Word don't even know how to use its > spellchecker (or they ignore it). When I had to use Word for something at > work, I would just fire up WordPad -- nothing I wrote needed any kind of > polish -- if it had I would have brought Word Pro to work or downloaded > OpenOffice. > > Except for special departments, who uses a word processor anymore anyhow? > Almost everything is email. > > But, of course, I don't do that mythical "serious" work where Windows and > Microsoft Office are "absolutely necessary," that some folks here (on > COLA) keep yammering on about. Great argument: MS Word is not needed if you do not need a real word processor. Lovely advocacy. :) -- [INSERT .SIG HERE]
From: Snit on 14 Jan 2010 20:59 RonB stated in post hiog59$8db$2(a)news.eternal-september.org on 1/14/10 6:24 PM: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:40:15 +0000, Gordon wrote: > >> Conor wrote: >> >> >>> Quite probably. You'll also find they're using MS Office as well. >>> >>> >> For the few users only who need functions which are not in OO. And >> that's not many. > > That's exactly how we used in one of the places I worked that went to Open > Office. A couple folks needed specialized macros, so they kept using > Microsoft Office. Everyone else went to Open Office. And this was over > three years ago -- Open Office has gotten much better since then. Right: for people who do not need powerful word processing capabilities, lesser word processors might work fine. Of course. -- [INSERT .SIG HERE]
From: Hadron on 14 Jan 2010 21:44 RonB <ronb02NOSPAM(a)gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:40:15 +0000, Gordon wrote: > >> Conor wrote: >> >> >>> Quite probably. You'll also find they're using MS Office as well. >>> >>> >> For the few users only who need functions which are not in OO. And >> that's not many. > > That's exactly how we used in one of the places I worked that went to Open > Office. A couple folks needed specialized macros, so they kept using > Microsoft Office. Everyone else went to Open Office. And this was over > three years ago -- Open Office has gotten much better since then. According to Willy it was ready for the prime time 10 years ago .... No one believes your stories WrongG.
From: Hadron on 14 Jan 2010 21:45 RonB <ronb02NOSPAM(a)gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:59:38 -0800, Tom Shelton wrote: > >> Funny, because here in the US - every company I've worked for from large >> to small had some office automation being used. Again, VBA and Macro's >> are not all there is to Office Automation. For instance, the stuff I'm >> going to be doing is in C# not VBA. > > Nowhere that I have worked have we used any kind of automation with > Microsoft Office. WronG, you were a bean counter. This does not mean you see the planning an mering etc the goes on. Automation is used all over the place.
From: Hadron on 14 Jan 2010 23:50
Hadron<hadronquark(a)gmail.com> writes: > RonB <ronb02NOSPAM(a)gmail.com> writes: > >> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:59:38 -0800, Tom Shelton wrote: >> >>> Funny, because here in the US - every company I've worked for from large >>> to small had some office automation being used. Again, VBA and Macro's >>> are not all there is to Office Automation. For instance, the stuff I'm >>> going to be doing is in C# not VBA. >> >> Nowhere that I have worked have we used any kind of automation with >> Microsoft Office. > > WronG, you were a bean counter. This does not mean you see the planning > an mering etc the goes on. "and merging" > > Automation is used all over the place. |