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this is the portable edition that you can run from a pen drive without installation. and yes, libreoffice does not have progressive updates so you have to download the complete installer everytime there is an update and you want to upgrade.
merabharathmahan
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The key is that will organisations support this open source ? Org need the source code of s/w that they use to be very secure
chaibiskutbhai
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I am associated with a large Medical Transcription company. Two years back, they have migrated their systems to use Open Office (instead of MSO) and replaced Outlook with Thunderbird. Firefox has been made their default browser in all systems. Currently, they have started using Fedora and Ubuntu on a few systems and are evaluating a full move towards Linux. They are currently having 5000+ systems on Win XP (all legal).
Thats called a more forward looking organisation. Dumping MS - a high priced Bimbo. If there are certain functionalities missing in the Open source stuff, these companies can always fund the development of those functionalities. It would still be cheaper than MS.
Well if something comes for a high price, just for its sleeker looks, and may be a few functions more than the Free alternative, then that has to be termed a Bimbo. And then u have to pay for it every year or so, and also for every other copy u want of it!
Edit: And still it crashes on ur head without any reason at times. I have been breaking my head against Excel crashing at office several times. And which version is it? It is MS Office 2007 PROFESSIONAL. If this high priced tool still crashes on a decently powered system, then what is the use of paying so much?
Edit: And still it crashes on ur head without any reason at times. I have been breaking my head against Excel crashing at office several times. And which version is it? It is MS Office 2007 PROFESSIONAL. If this high priced tool still crashes on a decently powered system, then what is the use of paying so much?
Well if something comes for a high price, just for its sleeker looks, and may be a few functions more than the Free alternative, then that has to be termed a Bimbo.
You are either overestimating what free alternatives can do, or terribly undermining what Office can.
And then u have to pay for it every year or so, and also for every other copy u want of it!
No point comparing a free software with a licensed one on this front. I am not aware of any Office edition which requires an annual fee though. One can buy a version and use it for as long as they want to.
Edit: And still it crashes on ur head without any reason at times. I have been breaking my head against Excel crashing at office several times. And which version is it? It is MS Office 2007 PROFESSIONAL. If this high priced tool still crashes on a decently powered system, then what is the use of paying so much?
This is interesting. I haven't really loaded Excel much, apart from opening tsv logs between 500 and 750MB in size, and while it took really long to open those files, after it did, it ran pretty well. You might be using even larger files. Or worse, badly written macros. I haven't ever seen Excel, Word, or PowerPoint crashing though. Outlook Express yes. Outlook, no.
You are either overestimating what free alternatives can do, or terribly undermining what Office can.
And then u have to pay for it every year or so, and also for every other copy u want of it!
No point comparing a free software with a licensed one on this front. I am not aware of any Office edition which requires an annual fee though. One can buy a version and use it for as long as they want to.
Edit: And still it crashes on ur head without any reason at times. I have been breaking my head against Excel crashing at office several times. And which version is it? It is MS Office 2007 PROFESSIONAL. If this high priced tool still crashes on a decently powered system, then what is the use of paying so much?
This is interesting. I haven't really loaded Excel much, apart from opening tsv logs between 500 and 750MB in size, and while it took really long to open those files, after it did, it ran pretty well. You might be using even larger files. Or worse, badly written macros. I haven't ever seen Excel, Word, or PowerPoint crashing though. Outlook Express yes. Outlook, no.
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I have comfortably imported a text file of 1GB to excel and excel did a wonderful job. Though it took sometime, But it did open. BTW, I use Office 2010.
