2007/11/9, Daniel Pantoja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hi, I'm a new user of the product and I'm curious; what's the purpose of > developing OpenOffice? It seems there's already a couple of Microsoft > solutions out there for folks who need word processing, database, > spreadsheet capabilities; just wondering why the push to develop this suite. > > > Thanks for yoru consideration; I look forward to your response.
Hi, I'm just an ordinary user. These are a few of the reasons I prefer OpenOffice.org over Microsoft Office: 1. I can afford it. 2. I can't find a Microsoft Office version to install on my system (GNU/Linux Ubuntu Studio 7.10). 3. OpenOffice.org supports ISO/IEC 26300 with no need for installing extra plugins. 4. OpenOffice.org saves using the ISO/IEC 26300 format as default. 5. Things that annoyed me with Microsoft Office works smoother with OpenOffice.org. 6. The [email protected] mailing list is great! 7. I have reported some issues when I found that something didn't work as expected, and many of them was actually corrected! Here are a few things with OpenOffice.org that I think need to be improved: 1. Speed. I have a fast PC these days, but I think OpenOffice.org SHOULD run fast even on an older system, at least as fast as Microsoft Office does, which is a lot faster in many cases than OpenOffice.org. 2. Impress is still not very impressive, I think. Needs a lot of work. Fortunately for me, I don't use presentation software anyway, but others obviously do. Daniel & Aimee Pantoja > >
