Why?

Lol openofficefags are highschool kids who don't even use styles. MSO = GOD, deal with it

>>3085596

Why? Use whatever you want.

notepad, bitches.

I was introduced to Microsoft Office, but I took a look at the OpenOffice, they are pretty much the same except that Microsoft Office has a better navigation and easier for me to use.

UI intergration.

>>3085618
I don't know anyone who uses styles and I completed my Master's in computer engineering in May.

Enjoy your delusions.

It isn't made in java

>>3085618

I know a few professional writers IRL and that's bullshit. The support for styles in OOo is much more advanced than what is available in MSO.

MS Office isn't ugly and slow.

ribbon

>>3085678
you must be joking, nigger

I use Open Office only because I'm too cheap to buy MS Office, which I used MS Office 2000, which was shittier than OOo 2

Plus, in linux, it's the only good office suite.

I use Microsoft Office, you use Open Office

ability to center align a page vertically - open office cannot do this.

Open Office has ugly templates.

>>3085596
because its not free

OOo rapes, pillages, and burns your hometown while you're asleep.

>>3085669
>professional writers
And I'm a "professional" student that used both for I don't know how many years, and MS Office rapes Open Office very badly.

MS Office 2007 = win, 2003 is awww right, everything else is shit.

real men pay for their software.

>>3085750
>real idiots pay for their software.

I knew the pythagorean theorem at age 11! Everyone else's opinion is invalid!

openoffice calc kicks the shit out of microsoft excel

openoffice writer is about equivalent to microsoft word

finally, openoffice presentation thing is way shittier than microsoft powerpoint.

i need a spreadsheet way more than i need anything else, so openoffice wins.

p.s. latex kicks the shit out of word and powerpoint

>>3085748
you sound like you're being paid by microsoft.

>>3085752
>HHHHHHUUURRRRRRRR I'm a fucking 16 years old pirate DUUUUURRRRRR don'T fuck with me or I'll hack you
Go play in traffic. Pretty much everyone pirates MS Office and I used to until I found out I could get the whole thing for $60(student discount).

>>3085769
I wish I was.

>>3085754
Shut up Macfag

>>3085618

Lol MSOffice fags are highschool kids who don't even use LaTeX etc etc.

>>3085764
Even though you are right about LaTeX I must inform you that Gnumeric kicks the shit out of OOo calc.

>>3085754
who cares, just because you didn't have any friends when you were young and sat on the internet every day just looking stuff up doesn't mean you're smarter than everybody else. I knew the basics of the relativity theory when I was 10 and I'm not smarter than most people, I just looked it up in a book and learnt it.
Also MS Office all the way, shareware is good, but never as good as the real product.

has anybody tried IBM lotus symphony? i have heard some good things about it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Symphony

>>3085669

I know "professional writers" and they use doublespaced monoface fonts, THE INDUSTRY WIDE STANDARD, so styles would be a pretty shitty waste of time eh?

But tell your pals to enjoy their shitty freelance local newspaper doodlings.

>>3085808
>IBM
>good

no

>>3085701

But do you really need a suite? What's wrong with gnumeric and, for example, abiword?

>>3085802
You're a fag for not getting it.

=rand()

=rand(5,1)

=rand(10,20)

CAN YOUR OPEN OFFICE DO THAT, MOTHERFUCKS??

>>3085812
>you
>faggot

yes

oh that was easy, i like your logic sir

>>3085773
You're a student with $60 to waste for absolutely no reason? You must have the biggest faggot arsed social life known to man.

Maple + Matlab >>> *

fuck using office or shit for anything mathmatical.

Also access

Well... With MS Office you can author something that someone will be able to open and have it retain the format you made it in across every business, government, educational facility, and most of the world.

>>3085882

But is being locked into MSs shitty format really a good thing?

/thread open fail sucks ass

>>3085882
Really? Last time i checked MSOffice couldnt even save files in ODF.

>>3085829

Wait, this is fucking awesome. In a pointless dull way.

>>3085901
Since when does good or bad ethics count in smart business choices? Don't be silly.

Also, welcome to the real world.

it's not really superior much at all but it's in more use and it may have many features that are not in openoffice. depending on what type of job you are in their importance vary.

because microsoft office earns microsoft a large amount of cash


how much does openoffice.org make off open office?

>>3085911

And ODF is used how often? Oh, wait... Never? Okay. I got you now.

>>3085938

/thread

>>3085812

It's like Open Office except prettier.

>>3085905
Wow, look at all the unnecessary preschool bullshit on the left side of that pic.

>>3085911
>ODF

lol obscure archaic useless never used shit is the basis of your argument wow openfail has a new low

>>3085968
>BAWWW I CANT AFFORD RAM HI SKOOL ROX

>>3085669
haha 0/10

>>3085994
Wow, look at all the unnecessary preschool bullshit in this post.

>>3085938

just like internet explorer huh? who follows (web) standards anyways? there is no point and everyone should just have their own proprietary formats.

>>3085596
> I was introduced to Microsoft Office, but I took a look at the OpenOffice, they are pretty much the same except that Microsoft Office has a better navigation and easier for me to use since it's what I'm used to.
fix'd, faggot

>>3085978

2/10 only because i responded.

>>3085938
Well there are quite a few European government organizations that use ODF as their preferred file format. ODF is also mandatory standard for all NATO members, that's 26 countries.

>>3086080

No, no, we mean people in technologically advanced countries like the US.

>>3086080

>>3086099
Someone's failing the fifth grade.

>>3086154

I know you are.

>>3086178
Look up NATO, bro.

>>3086134

DENTAL PLAN !

Lisa needs braces :O

DENTAL PLAN !

Lisa needs braces

Lisa needs braces

DENTAL PLAN !

they're both free.

take the name brand.

>>3086211

I did. I don't see any country worth mentioning.

US? UK?

>>3085961
I'd try out Lotus Symphony (i'm an OOOfag right now), but the name reminds me too much of lotus tit ;_;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEugtOiasB4

Lisa needs braces

My professors all use and demand that we hand in shit as .docx, so I use MS Office. :(

>>3086317
>>3086099

i've used OO 2.4 and shit sucked

i used to use Openoffice but one day i use MS Office 07 and it was so beautiful and superior it made me shit brix
srsly!

>>3086404

I don't get it.

>>3086422
pic or it didn't happen

You can't replace Outlook with fucking anything in an Exchange environment. Sure there are other clients that will work with Exchange, but they all fucking suck and you lose features. Try making someone use OO at pretty much any company in the US and see what happens...Don't get me wrong I'd love to see open source software REALLY compete with MS Office, they're getting close, but Outlook is the killer app people will pay anything for.

inb4 "Exchange sucks switch to qmail" fuck you learn2enterprise

Seriously, who needs all this shit when we have latex (not that i'm proficient at it) ?

I bet there are decent noob-friendly, easy to use latex editors.

>>3086467
Whats so hard about setting up evolution + mimetypes

Open office (NeoOffice). It does everything MS Office can do and is free.

Everything feels so damn clunky in Open Office.

>>3086467

This. I keep forgetting about Outlook and Exchange.

Even if a company only uses Exchange for internal use and has a real mail swerver facing the Internet there's nothing that'll replace Exchange + Outlook.

Which really does suck.

>>3085710

fuck you.. use a real layout program. (scribus, pagemaker...etc)

On my lunix, at least, OOo3 uses its own shitty font renderer that completely ignores hinting. Aliased fonts are the future.

>>3086632
> BAWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Excuse me guys, but few weeks ago I read a review of Windows 7. It had tons of screens and one I saw a motherfucking bad ass math editor in which you actually draw equations with mouse and software recognises it and converts it. It's going to be introduced in Windows 7 or it's already in some MSOffice?

Sorry for my english...

>>3086679
Really? Haven't seen anything like that in office...

>>3086679
rotfl, I bet that will be a killer feature for dumb kids who can't use parenthesis well

Found it - guess it's separate program. As for me, it's fucking win.