Hi Sarah - totally agree! We've previously found it difficult to do stuff in schools because policy has rather dictated an emphasis on Microsoft Office skills but this is changing and we're now looking at doing work in schools - particularly to develop a new generation of programmers.
Regards, Paula On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 20:27 +0100, Sarah Chard wrote: > O > n Thu, 2011-06-09 at 14:44 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote: > > And here's the problem. odf is the better format, MS Office is the > > better office suite. > > > > I'm not at all convinced that the traction against OOo/LO is entirely > > (or even mostly) down to people being used to MS Office and, much as > > it > > might well be getting better in LO, MS Office has long been the more > > complete, polished, stable and predictable of the two. > > For the majority of people doing mundane office tasks as I do whilst > running my business I doubt there would be a substantial difference > using Libre/Open Office or MS Office > > MS Office may be better - I can't comment as I genuinely have never used > it - I started with Lotus (because that was on the first machine I had) > then switched to open source programs and finally made the move over to > Ubuntu as an OS - my business has been running on Ubuntu for several > years now. > And that is the point - people use MS office because it's what is on > their machines when they buy them and get used to using it. Most people > don't want to change - I was interested in open source for a range of > reasons and enjoy experimenting with programs but I know most people > find it very boring. > > Because M$ have a monopoly the open source office programs are ham > strung as they have to play catch-up trying to get their programs > working easily with the closed M$ formats - which their users will need > the programs to do as they will daily deal with others using MS office. > If the open doc formats were enforced by govt - it would help to level > the playing field and it would be easier for larger organisations to > start a switch to open source in front offices. > > I'm sure you all know the arguments > > That's why getting schools to teach about Open Source and explore the > alternatives is very important - then we may not need to 'convert' > users. > > Sarah > > > > > > >
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