![]() ![]() You would either pay extra for MS Office or get OpenOffice instead. Of course it wouldn’t make sense to offer an entry-level suite when OpenOffice is available. ![]() Dell can charge the same for PCs with OpenOffice as they would have for PCs with whatever entry-level suite they were offering before, and they get to pocket the usual licensing fee. Nobody has offered to give Dell a free productivity suite until now. Dell’s target market has clearly indicated that they would like to see OpenOffice bundled with Dell PCs, and the OpenOffice team wants to help them make it happen. ![]() At OpenOffice is something useful that adds quite a bit of value to the product. This isn’t some trialware, this is a full productivity suite! People hate the crapware that comes preinstalled on their OEM PCs. OpenOffice is not only offering Dell as many licenses as they want at no cost, but they hinted that they would like to make a special version of OpenOffice for Dell (whatever that might entail). They also pay for Works or WordPerfect or whatever. Not as much as consumers and businesses do, but a good chunk of change nonetheless. Dell has to pay loads of money for MS Office licenses. It will be game over for microsoft’s upper hand game over the OEMs in the industry.Īsking them to bundle OOo AND give money to it is a charity plea. If either Dell or HP follow the free software strategy and play their cards cleverly, they will succeed and then the other OEM will follow the same direction. Microsoft, in contrast, cannot find alternatives to estabilished OEMS to distribute their software. And now there are software alternatives to Microsoft for the OEMs. The redmonian giant could then favor some or other OEM in order to damage the one not obeying them.īut in the long run, if the OEMs follow their supplier’s quasi-extortionating requirements instead of their customer’s they will suffer even more. Yes, the hardware manufacturers could -should- include free alternatives to Microsoft expensive products preinstalled: OpenOffice, Gnu/Linux…, but they are too much afraid of MSFT’s wrath. “I also believe MS is bound by court order such that they can’t do that”Īctually,with respect to the monopoly conviction, Microsoft seems to be not quite bound by law, on the contrary, it seems to be allowed to BEND THE LAW or to cleverly circumvent it, whenever it see it fit. Personally, I am looking forward to the aqua port of OO.o, but I will likely continue to use Powerpoint if Impress hasn’t caught up on the Presenter Tools issue. Those of us with scientific pursuits find it lacking, but it does fine in a pinch. I’ve used it on both Linux and Windows andd I really like it (except launch time was a little slow). Or is that just an outdated wiki entry?Īs far as Writer goes…no problem. I saw a wiki at the OO.o site earlier today which indicated that this was a major problem for Impress and that they knew it would never catch on in academia or for many business environments until they had an offering similar to Presenter Tools in Powerpoint. Does OO.o offer that in Impress? If it does, than it just jumped up a few points in my book. I’m in academia, so I give lectures several times a week. On a second display, what is shown is your current slide. At the bottom is your notes for the slide. At the top is a timer from when you started your talk. Presenter Tools in MS Office Powerpoint allows you to have 3 miniature slides on one side (what you covered, what slide you are on, and what is next) with the current slide enlarged to the right. I’m looking forward to v2.3 and v3.0, and I hope that the developers are able to package everything in a way that it is even harder to find a reason to justify the expense of an office suite costing more than $100.ĭoes Impress support “Presentation Tools” like in Powerpoint? My understanding is that it doesn’t offer anything like that. Those are the people that I usually hear complaining about Impress. People often try to do too much with presentation software that distracts from a message. In fact, I have had times using PowerPoint that I missed a feature from Impress that seemed like it should have been a completely elementary design decision (like far superior formatting control for fonts and characters). With regards to Impress, I haven’t seen any glaring issues with the feature set (other than performance). In the past Calc only sufficed for my most basic needs. They could both benefit from improvements in that area.ĭeveloper snapshots show some nice feature enhancements in the works for Calc that should go a long way toward allowing me to use it as a complete replacement for Excel. I won’t argue about the points of performance of either Calc or Impress. ![]()
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