Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Jan 2008 23:23 UTC
"After the incredible success of the Asus Eee PC, other manufacturers are ready to get their piece of the pie. This means that within the next few months we are going to see this segment go from just two devices - the Eee PC and the Nanobook (which has yet to come out in the U.S. but which we have been hearing about for some time) - to many more." Another article on the Eee says: "Five of the 10 best-selling notebooks, including the top three models this weekend do not run Windows or Mac OS X. In fact, they are different models of the same diminutive notebook the Asus Eee PC - that runs on Linux."
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So just because OOo has a couple of features that Office doesn't have, it all of a sudden has more features? I don't think it works that way (and math agrees with me). "
Aside from support of ODF and PDF, the following are the "big picture" features of OpenOffice that MS Office is a long, long way behind in:
"Free (as in zero cost). Open (as in "freedom" - especially freedom from lock-in). Community support. Standards support. Cross-platform. Future-proof (no forced upgrades to new versions). Interoperability. In addition to all that, it doesn't burden you with any new "ribbon" GUI learning curve to cope with."
Only KOffice 2 (not released yet) gets even close.
MS Office misses out on most of the "big picture". Sure MS Office does a fine job as an Office suite, in terms support for a wide array of detail functions (formatting, tables, fonts, macros that type of thing)... just about everything you can think of ... but then again the other main Office suites have all that also. No-one will be short-changed for that type of feature, no matter what suite they choose.
However only MS Office users will have to suffer lock-in, forced training, excessive costs, forced upgrades, lack of interoperability etc, etc that MS Office burdens them with.