Skip to main content

Robert Sutor's Library tagged Office   View Popular

01 Aug 09

If You Pay for a Linux Word Processor, Is It Really Worth the Price?

"Are you interested in a word processing environment that's more or less the same across multiple PC desktop and mobile platforms--a Linux notebook and a Windows CE device, let's say, or a Macintosh PC, a Windows XP netbook, and an Android phone? How about a word processor that comes with abundant tech support, or one that handles complicated documents relatively easily? If any of these capabilities cries out to you, you might be better off with a commercial product--the kind you pay for--instead of one of many free open source packages also aimed at countering the Microsoft Word stranglehold."

linux.com/...r-is-it-really-worth-the-price - Preview

OB Linux office

13 Jul 09

How Microsoft Ratted Itself Out Of Office | BNET Technology Blog | BNET

"Depending on your perspective, either Microsoft has sowed the seeds of its own undoing, or international standards bodies succeeded in forcing Microsoft to open itself up. Either way, Microsoft has given away the key to compatibility with Office documents, allowing all comers to overcome the one barrier that has heretofore prevented customers from dumping Microsoft’s Office suite."

industry.bnet.com/...ft-ratted-itself-out-of-office - Preview

OB Microsoft Office OOXML standards

18 Feb 09

LA Apple Gear Examiner: Word processors for Mac OS X - Early 2009 Edition

"Yes, a Mac can do everything a Windows machine can and often better. This includes one of the world's most performed functions of a computer; word processing. Heck, I'm doing it now in one of the word processors listed below (I'll keep that private until the end of the list). You don't have to spend money to get a good application, though. A few in this list are free."

www.examiner.com/r-Mac-OS-X--Early-2009-Edition - Preview

OB Mac Office

30 May 08

Robguy 4.0: My Changing Relationship with MS

"My viewpoint is changing now that it's not part of my job. When it turned out that I hadn't officially purchased Office, I questioned if I still wanted to."

notrobsstuff.blogspot.com/...ging-relationship-with-ms.html - Preview

OB Microsoft Office ODF

15 May 08

Apple Watch - Channel - Office's Big Mac Sales

"Mac Office accounts for more than one-quarter of all retail sales of the productivity suite. That's right, more than 25 percent."

blogs.eweek.com/...offices_big_mac_sales.html - Preview

Mac Microsoft Office OB

15 Apr 08

Fat, fatter, fattest: Microsoft’s kings of bloat | InfoWorld | Review | 2008-04-14 | By Randall C. Kennedy

"Our tests show that Windows Vista and Office 2007 not only smash Redmond’s previous records for weight gain, but given the same hardware diet, run at less than half the speed of generation XP"

www.infoworld.com/...C-winoffice-performance_1.html - Preview

Microsoft Office OB

1 - 6 of 6
Showing 20 items per page

Diigo is about better ways to research, share and collaborate on information. Learn more »

Join Diigo