Microsoft Disses OpenOffice.org with New Video

[adamboy64]

I think Microsoft Office is a better product... but in terms of cost/performance ratio.. I'd say OpenOffice.

But yes, I could see the difficulties to moving to OpenOffice in the workplace.

 

[compton]

I don't like the cut of MSOffice's jib post-2003. I have 2007 and OpenOffice installed on everything. OpenOffice is a damn fine suite if you're not doing it at the enterprise level. I can only imagine all the ignorant teachers complaining about OpenOffice... they're union. It's what they do.

 

[darthvidor]

very true here in my office but we only give ms office to those who really need it

 

[cruiseoveride]

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

I believe this is what he meant by "they laugh at you".

 

[BulkZerker]

O😵rg = Home/Truely Broke College Student use FTW

MSO = the force fed standard.

 

[ac7ss]

I have to use vi, OO and M$ Office.

I do not like the interface of M$2007, it is too much flash, not enough function. Give me a drop down menu bar any day.

Give me VI anyday for simple editing; no overhead and fast.

I see little difference in most of my word processing between OO and M$. In Excel (M$ is what I use at work.) I have more than 300kb of code for a piece of management spreadsheet that I coded. I would have hated to have to do that in Java (The coding language for OO macros.)

The comparison would have been more 'fair' if they took native OO users and gave them a week in M$ Office.

I run OO on a 13 year old computer. Can you do that with M$ 2007?

 

[fuzzietech]

This reminds me of politicians that because they can't argue for why their own team is good, instead needs to argue why the other team is bad.

As with all IT solutions, don't use a solution until its thouroughly tested in the areas YOU are going to use it. Aquiring a system based on anything other than your own quality plan and then blaming the system for not living up to spec is pure stupidity.
Secondly, dont blame an excellent free software if you have users that are'nt IT-oriented enough to use it. It's not a coincidence that what you think sucks and/or can't get working properly is praised by so many others.

 

[mjello]

Openoffice is great for the private person but in a big organisation where you are accustomed to all the advanced features of microsoft office like really big and complex excel sheets with macros. Microsoft is just better.

I hate to say it, but I agree with Microsoft on most points, but making a video like that to flail your competitor, is just idiotic.

 

[Vorador2]

OpenOffice is fine por private use. But for corporate use, OO falls short in a lot of aspects. Office is the industry standard, and will be for a long time.

Still, Microsoft must feel really threatened to make such a ridiculous video.

 

[maarcis]

I use OpenOffice.org mainly as a backup option if suddenly MS Office 2007 f_cks up a document (usualy it corrupts large .doc, .docx, or can't open .xls, xlsx at all). Sounds funny but every once in a while I need the OpenOffice.org to be able to open genuine MS Office document!

 

[guitarpeggio]

All of the problems mentioned sounded to me like fancy ways of saying, "All of our users were too stupid to use Open Office".

 

[braneman]

I cant see over a hundred dollars of problems here, Openoffice.org works, and it works well and its free, Microsoft office works and works well, but costs too much.

 

[DjEaZy]

http://www.documentfoundation.org/
... even O😵 guys brake away from it... to do its own thing... i think, this attack on O😵 is because of Oracle taking over SUN and all or its assets... like VirtualBox and OpenOffice.org... let's see, how former O😵 staff do it's thing with LibreOffice...

 

[dEAne]

Yeah that's true if your not too complicated with your work open office is ok.

 

[descendency]

[citation][nom]braneman[/nom]I cant see over a hundred dollars of problems here, Openoffice.org works, and it works well and its free, Microsoft office works and works well, but costs too much.[/citation]

You're obviously not a corporate software engineer (internal tools developer, clearing $50-150/hr) or even in an corporate work environment.

[citation][nom]guitarpeggio[/nom]All of the problems mentioned sounded to me like fancy ways of saying, "All of our users were too stupid to use Open Office".[/citation]
Yea, that's exactly why macros were created. Because they do things for stupid people. Or maybe... you simply don't understand what the f*** you are talking about. Somehow, i think it's the latter. Maybe you should get a corporate job and stop trolling random sites with this garbage.

 

[randomizer]

Why is this video blaming Open Office for formatting errors when:

1) Microsoft doesn't open up its proprietary formats to be interoperable with other software, and
2) MS Word doesn't support ODF or OOXML properly, and thus can't get off scott free.

Secondly, is Open Office at fault because users have only ever used MS Office? Of course not.

Thirdly, it is good that one of those IT managers doesn't believe that open source = free. Anybody who thinks "open source" and "free" (freedom or beer) are interchangeable terms is deceiving themselves.

Is Office superior to OOo? It's a matter of taste. I think it is. I certainly think Excel is far better than Calc (especially in performance). But this video is very much a steaming pile of FUD.

 

[teodoreh]

So, Microsoft actually advertises that OpenOffice sucks, because it's not compatible enough with MS Office and because users are more familiar with their product.

That's a bit pathetic if you think about it...

 

[marraco]

Office 2007 had reduced functionality over former versions. Cna't even drag and drop data series to charts in excel.

 

[shizen]

open office 3.2 .. good enough for me..

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]teodoreh[/nom]So, Microsoft actually advertises that OpenOffice sucks, because it's not compatible enough with MS Office and because users are more familiar with their product. That's a bit pathetic if you think about it...[/citation]
It's hard for Open Office to be compatible with newer versions of Office anyway because Office 2007/2010 don't even properly support their own native format!

 

[Guest]

big fat company threatened by a free software....microsoft makes me laugh...hahaha....try compare ms office with iworks from apple. wow last time i've tried their presentation makes ms powerpoint looks like ancient software to me....not saying iworks are better than ms office, but the ideas that apple put in iworks are awesome.microsoft need to do something fresh for their ms office.changing ui doesn't impressed people around because it gives people headeache to learn everything back again. Well open office served me for many years and practically i dont have any problems with it. try to imagine if there's no other software to compete with microsoft... maybe we still stuck with ms office 2000 till this time...or more worst..stuck with vista...hahha...

 

[Guest]

LOL,

Well when your program isn't good enough you use other tactics...

Funny that a multi million dollar application is being threatened by a open source one, even many time being it the one who create the few compatibility issues.

 

[enzo matrix]

"When we returned to Microsoft Office after our experience with OpenOffice, you could practically hear a collective sigh of relief across the entire district,"

"When we returned to Microsoft Office 2003 after our experience with Microsoft Office 2007, you could practically hear a collective sigh of relief across the entire district,"
Change all of these quotes replacing openoffice with office 2007 and microsoft office with office 2003 and the ad still makes perfect sense.

 

[feeddagoat]

Alot of the complaints seem to be based on incompetent IT departments rather than a problem with OO.

 

[zodiacfml]

after watching the video, I will try using open office and evaluate it myself. the video wouldn't be necessary if open office sucks as said there.