On Sat, 24 May 2003, alex khalil wrote:So, what you are saying is that if you ask 10 people, you are sure to find someone who regularily embeds office OLE in other documents, somone (possibly else) who regularily embeds his own OLE inside office, someone who fires up VBA and writes dynamic documents, someone who uses Office's ability to download content from the internet, someone who uses Office to send the same letter to hundreds of recipients, and someone who creates his own templates? I'm sorry, I find it hard to believe you will cover most of this list with any random 10 people chosen. Not even with 20. This list is does not even include the more obscure features Word have. These features are prety mainstream.
In recent years, Microsoft has been cramming its Office package with capabilities no one needs. The estimate used to be that most consumers used only about 20 percent of the capabilities of the Word word-processing program, the central component of the Microsoft Office package; nowadays, the average computer user avails himself to less than 10percent of the product's capabilities.
This is the 10 percent that Open Office is offering - for free.
Actually, Open Office provides more than 10 percent of the functionality of MS Office and aims to provide all of it eventually. In fact this myth is wrong because while most people only use 20% of the features, each one uses a different 20%. And take 9 or 10 people and you'll get close to the full 100.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
Shachar
-- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/
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