OpenOffice versus Microsoft Office
The ZDNet blogger Paul Murphy recently polled readers about how they rated the free program OpenOffice compared to Microsoft Office. He reports:
On balance I came away from the discussion with the impression that the differences in functionality are of minor importance for most people most of the time; that those who spoke against OpenOffice generally did so on the basis of mis-information; and, that most of the arguments for Microsoft Office were in one way or another artifacts of market share rather than technology with people using Office where they shouldn’t simply because they have it, or because other people have it.
His conclusion:
OpenOffice is better for most users because it’s free, but it’s reasonable to assume that a few users will want/need/demand Microsoft Office for functional or personal reasons.
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