Comments on: OpenOffice.org Goes Mobile

By: Gray Rentz

Gray Rentz — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:24:06 +0000

Personal Opinion, and Luckily we can all pick to use whatever we want :-)

By: Richard Strattan

Richard Strattan — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:17:14 +0000

I’m not bashing IE, I’m just saying I stay away from it. I prefer to stick with good popup blocking and built-in RSS feeders. I never even had to worry about the WMF exploit, as it was only an issue with IE (provided you didn’t click ok in FF/Opera).

By: Grentz

Grentz — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:07:25 +0000

Tobadly I cannot use this. They dont have the full support for some macros in Excel that I use and some of the other customizations used for work. Its a good basic office suite for standard users, but there is a reason why we buy Office and its not just because its Microsoft…

Also, there is no reason to bash IE, IE just does not work well if you go to those not so nice sites and/or if you are not protected properly. I have Trend Micro and have yet to have anything touch my machine :)

By: psionandy

psionandy — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:04:01 +0000

Well now I can have Openoffice, The Gimp and Firefox all on a USB key…so I can land on anyone elses computer and do most of what i want :)

By: Richard Strattan

Richard Strattan — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:22:16 +0000

No, you’re entirely correct, I don’t want two Office suites on my PC…that’s why I have $300 in my pocket and openoffice on my PCs.

But as far as browsers go, I have Opera, Firefox, and IE. Opera is numero uno for most stuff, Firefox for some extensions, IE when I absolutely have to. As far as mail programs go, check out Mozilla thunderbird, it’s very nice and free of course.

By: David Gray

David Gray — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:04:46 +0000

Ya know, i sat and poked around their site one whole afternoon. This really got my juices flowing, but i couldn’t bring myself to hit the download button. MS Office is so huge and i bet this is too. So does a person want TWO big office suite hogging valuable resources and would they conflict. I love Firefox but HAVE to keep IE around because some sites need it. Wish someone would comment on what you might sacrifice by switching to another open system (like no mail program yet).