Hi,
I have used MS Office side-by-side with both OO and LO
on my iMAC (10.6.7) without a problem.
In fact, I invited danger running them all at the same time.
Not a problem! Dump MS Office! I hear it won't be supported
about 2 years from now. As matter of fact, neither will MS
Windows according to some reports.
Glenn
On 4/20/11 10:26 AM, Ken Springer wrote:
On 4/20/11 5:05 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
There seems to be an assumption that MS Office would be un-installed
or that
people would be forced to stop using MS Office and that the change
would have to
be implemented 'overnight'. None of that assumption is valid.
Agreed, it would be a gradual change, but it would change. Having two
office suites installed means more work for IT support for the program
and it's features, plus supporting the interchange of files. And, you
will always have those users who will not make a voluntary switch from
old to new until forced, causing continuing difficulty is sharing
files. I'm not IT, but been there done that when the switch was made
from WordPerfect (the better program IMO) to MS Word.
People could and probably would continue to use MS Office but would
gain access
to the extra functionality offered in LibreOffice. This is much the
same as
Adobe Acrobat Writer which office workers are often expected to
install or
upgrade in order to read pdf.
Pdf is dominant on websites as THE way that documents are available for
download. Often there is a download link nearby in case anyone has
not got the
latest version. People seem to consider it completely normal to have to
download and update Acrobat but it doesn't stop them using MS Office.
I suspect no one considers having a special program to read PDF's as
being "strange" is because only recently have office suites started to
be able to read and create PDF files.
I haven't used MS Office for a long time now, but if memory serves,
2003 can't do anything with them, 2007 can only create. I don't know
about 2010.
I've not done any kind of comparison, but I'd bet no office suite can
match the features of Adobe Reader 9. And I'd bet 10 has even more
features. So, until the office suites can "meet or exceed" Reader's
abilities to work with PDF files, there's going to be a separate
program to read and manipulate them, plus Acrobat or similar to create
them.
Ken
--
Glenn
"What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation."
T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"
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