atrain Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 (edited) hey alljust got a new laptop, benq joybook 6000n but there's no 'productivity software' [wanky euphemism] i have a grey-area copy of office 2000 [old oem disk, installed it on a few systems] & have been looking at open office. looks fantastic, gnu stuff is usually really inivative untill they sell out & it's cross platform, linux, osx & xp supported. anyone have any comments, alternate sugestions or quibbles about this choice?related linkswww.openoffice.orghttp://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/produc...39117219,00.htm Edited January 5, 2005 by atrain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 It's nice. We actually don't have that many lisences for this at work and mostly use Open Office. I think that it's really starting to come around, and 2005 will be an interesting year for the software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Tires Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 I use Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003, and Open Office on various work and personal systems. I'm still getting the hang of Open Office, but I can see myself using Office less and less. Outlook still has me by the throat though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 I've completely dropped Outlook Express in favor of Thunderbird..are you using Outlook or Outlook Express? Outlook is still a pretty strong suite, but when Mozilla wraps the Thunderbird and Sunbird applications together it's going to be a very attractive option for such purposes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Tires Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 I haven't used OE in years. I use Outlook for it's integrated calendar, contact, and email functionality. Plus it's the company standard. I use it at home too in order to keep the PDA sync'd on my home PC too.If Thunderbird can integrate will with Sunbird I'll be jazzed, especially if I can sync my PDA up to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted January 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 i'm using firefox on most of my pcs - the reason i'm allways on these md boards is a wifi network with 3 pcs & 2 notebooks. if i'm awake there's a computer next to me - anyway i'm holding off comtting fully to mozilla until i see the google suite, i love the toolbar & blogger so it's highly anticipated in my head anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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