Outlook is really the centerpiece of the Office suite for Microsoft. Not just as a technology component, but also in workflow for the user.
-- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" Download your free copies: http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/ebooks/ Joe Fruchey wrote: > ...and what is up with the article referring to Corel as 'dirt cheap'? > According to the link they provide, it's $270. Dirt cheap for a car, > maybe. MS Office 2007 Standard is $350. > > And does anyone else feel like Outlook is out of place in an office > suite? Every other app is about creating documents or content, and > then this one is for reading and managing email messages. Seems random > to me. > > On 5/16/07, Joe Fruchey <jfruchey at gmail.com> wrote: >> I would never say that OOo is better than MSO. I don't believe that >> OOo is any lighter than MSO; in fact, since OOo is closer, >> feature-wise to Office97, one could argue that OOo is far more >> bloated. ("One", in this instance, would not be me. ;)) >> >> Now, I'm not dogging OOo one bit. In fact, I love it. I use it all the >> time. My wife will often call to me from the other room, "How do you >> do this in Word?" My inevitable response is, "Use OpenOffice, then ask >> me again!" >> >> One killer feature of OOo for me... My wife taught high school this >> year. Never again, but that's another story. Anyhow, I helped her make >> lots of little multiple-choice quizzes throughout the year. In Word, I >> was copying and pasting to randomize the answers. Either that, or I >> had to do it as I typed. When I started doing it in OOo Writer, I >> discovered that Ctrl-up and down reordered list items. Miraculous. >> Suddenly I didn't dread making those tests. >> >> Some things just make more sense to me. Format -> Document rather than >> File -> Page setup. And while some people hate the word completion, I >> like it. With vocabulary words like indubitably, only having to type >> it fully once was kinda nice. >> >> One thing that FLOSS apps are always way behind on is UI. If you want >> to convert users and cut into MSO's userbase, you have to be pretty. >> People like pretty. People will give their money to a pretty thief >> before an honest ugly fellow. >> >> As far as Google Docs, I used Writely when it came out two years or so >> ago, and I was impressed. They even added a few new features after the >> Google acquisition. If I'm typing a letter, or maybe a blog post, it'd >> be great. I tried to create the aforementioned quizzes, though, but >> with very few list options, it was futile. >> >> MSO will also always kill OOo in the collaboration arena. That's their >> forte, and they do it well. Expensive and proprietary, but well. >> >> So there are my thoughts. >> >> Joe >> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
