[discuss] Re: Re: Competing with office 2007

2007-02-16 Thread William Baric
Le Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:55:26 +0100, Cor Nouws a écrit : That's why I teach people the context-menu. I guess we have two different perspective. I'm an independant computer consultant for small offices and my job is to make sure their system work for them. I don't sell one product in particular

[discuss] Re: Competing with office 2007

2007-02-15 Thread William Baric
Le Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:17:31 +0100, Cor Nouws a écrit : IMO the ribbon-hype is just another move from MS to encourage people to buy their software again. Of course it is, but the new interface looks like it is more than just a gimmick. From the few feedback I had, it really seems to be easier

[discuss] Re: Re: Competing with office 2007

2007-02-14 Thread William Baric
Le Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:30:19 -0500, Lars D. Noodén a écrit : Also, I'd like to think that OOo is about making a useful productivity suite and *not* about copying MS Office, especially the interface mistakes. I didn't use Office 2007 much myself, but I installed it on a few people's

[discuss] Re: Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free

2005-11-15 Thread William Baric
Chad Smith a écrit : And if this takes off, a crippled-ad-supported MS Office can't be far down the trial. Whether we'd like to admit it or not, many people use OOo simply because it is free (as in no price). They see it as a free subsitute for MS Office. And if MS Office becomes free (or

[discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-10 Thread William Baric
Daniel Kasak a écrit : The original poster already admitted that he's using Thunderbird. I use Thunderbird. Thunderbird can not replace outlook and right now there is no open source solution that can replace outlook. Sunbird and Chandler are at very early stage and it will probably takes at