The pathetic draw tool MS had before purchasing another company was actually part of office for a while. Now it usually only comes bundled with Corporate and super professional versions. They found people would pay for a drawing program.
KOffice includes a pretty good drawing program bundled as well...much better than Visio. On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 10:20 -0500, T. R. Valentine wrote: > I can understand why software companies expand software products to do > more and more things (to justify new versions, to convince chumps to > 'upgrade', and to push other software companies out of the picture), > but I do not understand those who buy into such a process with its > accompanying bloat. > > I want to choose the product which is best for my needs in each area > where I have a need for an application. If, for instance, I use > web-based e-mail, I have no need for an office suite which includes an > e-mail function and I neither want to spend the money nor waste hard > drive space for such a 'feature'. > > The worst expansions-into-bloat are what used to be anti-virus > products which now try to be firewalls, anti-spam, > anti-whatever-you-might-not-want, etc. But Microsoft Office isn't all > that far behind. I'm actually surprised they haven't rolled Visio into > the suite. (Or have they and I didn't notice?) > > > -- > T. R. Valentine > Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care. > 'When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food > and clothes.' -- Erasmus > -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
