Comments for: First OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta hits the web

#2. Posted at 08:04 AM on May 8th 2008

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liquidsquid

What's nice is for those of us who do very occasional documentation at home, but need the compatibility for work, but cannot shell out the cost of MS Office, or unwilling to shell out for Works. Instead of "borrowing" a copy to write 3 docs per year, we can use Oo and be legal.

This forward progress on Oo must make Microsoft a little worried as you really cannot take office application beyond a certain feature set to make it more compelling than the competition. Oo will eventually be right on top of MS Office in the market space as MS Office really cannot do much more than make its interface more intuitive (or recently, less intuitive).

I wonder how MS will sue Oo into submission?

-LS

#2, once you reach a feature-set limit, you begin working on you... : eitje (#3) «

#3, I love the interface of the entire Office 2007 suite, it'... : Meadows (#4) «

#4, Well the Ribbon may be very good and cute for newbies ... : poulpy (#12) «

#12, It can't kill productivity. People who "master" Off... : Meadows (#19) «

#19, Dunno about the whole Office suite but regarding... : poulpy (#20) «

#2, I actually like the ribbon a lot -- that's the only reason I... : SNM (#5) «

#5, The only thing that bugs me is that they kept the main Ou... : Taddeusz (#7) «

#7, Outlook probably isn't sufficiently complicated to mak... : BenBasson (#10) «

#10, According to a developer blog entry I read Outlook ... : Taddeusz (#16) «

#2, Microsoft sue? That all depends on how much balls they have,... : stmok (#18) «

#15. Posted at 11:28 AM on May 8th 2008

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pikaporeon

Still slow as mud?
[Yes I acknowledge wholeheartedly that this is due to it being Java and not due to any fault in the suite]

OOo is great. For my needs Abiword and.... I can't remember the name of my free spreadsheet software... fit well enough, but the tradeoff of speed for features is one that easily can be split.

#15, Is it Gnumeric? (The spreadsheet application) : stmok (#17) «

#9. Posted at 09:30 AM on May 8th 2008

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adisor19

Bye Bye NeoOffice !

Adi

#9, Yeah I might be saying the same... right when I found a bett... : ssidbroadcast (#14) «

#13. Posted at 11:09 AM on May 8th 2008

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Grigory

On every occasion OO was used on our documents created with the real Office it completely messed up the formatting. I hope that they fix this some day.

#11. Posted at 10:28 AM on May 8th 2008

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z-man

Agreed, took me a bit to get used to Office 2007 but now that I am I think it is much better then the old one. The ribbon bar is great.

#8. Posted at 09:21 AM on May 8th 2008

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herothezero

O2K7 has been a great investment for us at many levels, even without integration into Sharepoint or OCS.

That said, OO seems to be getting attention from Sun and that's not a bad thing.

#6. Posted at 09:03 AM on May 8th 2008

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blastdoor

I'd love to use this, but in the past OO hasn't provided the level of document compatibility with MS Office (at least not the Mac version) that I need. I'm frankly skeptical that it ever will, but I'll be sure to check this out once it's out of beta.

#1. Posted at 07:34 AM on May 8th 2008

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Mavrick88

It sounds like they have made some really good improvements. Yes many will say "Don't complain, it's free" but even free stuff needs to work well if you want people to give it good reviews and to use it more often. Just because it's free doesn't allow something to 'suck.' So far with the changes and what OOo can do, it seems pretty nice to keep around.