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NeoOffice 2.1 released
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 358645" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>To be completely honest... me too. I think I can count the number of times I've tried the Mac version on one hand. For most of my productive duties, I've been resorting to NeoOffice. The interface (to me) is just more familiar. I was amazed by how different the Mac version of Office looks from the Windows version (just the way the windows are laid out). For what I need to do, NeoOffice is just the better option - and the fact that I can set the default to "save as" Word or Excel means that I never have to worry about compatibility between home and office.</p><p></p><p>Thankfully, Mac Office only cost me about $20 through my company's home usage program. When I first saw and played with OpenOffice.org way back when it first came out, I never would have thought that I'd be saying this, but I do think that it will eventually make in-roads into the corporate sector. </p><p></p><p>Office 2007, while very pretty, does not make any significant leaps technologically that I can discern - and once again, we'll need to go through an Access database conversion if we ever choose to roll it out. That is a huge problem for a company like mine that has 50,000+ Access databases in the wild. Unfortunately, as a corporate customer, we are pretty much forced into upgrading by Microsoft's support cycle/phase-out. I can see where OpenOffice.org, as it evolves might eventually become an attractive option.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 358645, member: 24098"] To be completely honest... me too. I think I can count the number of times I've tried the Mac version on one hand. For most of my productive duties, I've been resorting to NeoOffice. The interface (to me) is just more familiar. I was amazed by how different the Mac version of Office looks from the Windows version (just the way the windows are laid out). For what I need to do, NeoOffice is just the better option - and the fact that I can set the default to "save as" Word or Excel means that I never have to worry about compatibility between home and office. Thankfully, Mac Office only cost me about $20 through my company's home usage program. When I first saw and played with OpenOffice.org way back when it first came out, I never would have thought that I'd be saying this, but I do think that it will eventually make in-roads into the corporate sector. Office 2007, while very pretty, does not make any significant leaps technologically that I can discern - and once again, we'll need to go through an Access database conversion if we ever choose to roll it out. That is a huge problem for a company like mine that has 50,000+ Access databases in the wild. Unfortunately, as a corporate customer, we are pretty much forced into upgrading by Microsoft's support cycle/phase-out. I can see where OpenOffice.org, as it evolves might eventually become an attractive option. [/QUOTE]
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