If you guys haven’t tried out OpenOffice… well, it’s okay. No, it’s good, it’s just that they’re building an office suite to compete with people who have been “refining” their product for a couple decades now. Still, even in traditional office environments, word processors, spreadsheets and so on are giving way to either more specialized tools or free/online versions. I still don’t trust online tools enough to use them for anything but the most superficial tasks, but I’m also not about to shell out hundreds for an office suite I’ll hardly ever use, or go through the trouble of pirating it. OpenOffice to the rescue!
Although I doubt this new version will truly leapfrog Office, it certainly is free, open source, and much more likely to change in response to the demands of an quickly-changing software climate.
I don’t know a single person who thinks that Office 2007 is a good product. It’s become completely bloated, and the new menu systems make it really hard to find even the most-used features, never mind the 10,000 others that are just waiting to inadvertently pop up in some document and completely mess with your day.
Have you ever used Office 2007 for yourself, or are you just opening your mouth to speak the words that other persons have told?