Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Oct 2005 17:34 UTC, submitted by Valour
"With the release of StarOffice 8 and OpenOffice.org, and the rumors about MS Office 12, office suites are making their rounds in the press again. Microsoft's office suite is certainly the most popular on Windows, but there are competing suites from Corel and IBM. On GNU/Linux we have KOffice, GNOME Office, OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, and more. But no matter if they are free or proprietary, expensive or cheap, and regardless of what platforms they run on, the one thing that all software suites have in common is that they suck."
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2005-07-06
I totally agree. I haven't used Productive more than a handful of times, but from the few times I have used it, it impressed me as having probably the best thought-out UI for a word processor/spreadsheet that I'd seen. The menus that you can drag off as palettes are a great idea, I find it's styles features to be *infinitely* easier to use than Word's/Office's, and the frame-based approach it uses pisses all over Word when it comes to arranging complex documents.
Of course, it's missing some features that are considered pretty basic these days (automatic bullets/numbers in the word processor, auto-sum feature in the spreadsheet, etc)... but given its vintage, I think it's still one of the better examples of how a piece of software can be extraordinarily easy/simple to use, but still have a lot of utility.