Office 2010 Hits RC Stage, But You Can't Have It

[Regulas]

[citation][nom]Shadow703793[/nom]Yup. OpenOffice is good for people doing just basic typing imo. I use it.[/citation]
Yeah right, you must be hack for MS, Open office is a very nice alternative to MS Office. You can do just about everything that the overpriced MS Office can do and some things that MS Office can't do.

 

[DawnTreader]

[citation][nom]itadakimasu[/nom]In 2000-2003, you have to first close the find box, then open it back up if you still need it, which is a pain.[/citation]

ah, not. i use 2003 everyday, never had a problem with the find box, in fact it moves out of my way all by itself. you were probably using excel 95... 😛

 

[loomis86]

Zorky, if you're doing that kinda number crunching, maybe you shouldn't be using excel.

 

[bison88]

I am not really looking forward to Office 2010, from the outside looking in I don't see anything that really justifies the need to buy and I recently heard businesses are thinking the same. I am still struggling with this Ribbon interface thing. I kind of miss my menus in a sick twisted kind of way. However did I hear correctly about the ability to open multiple programs in a ribbon interface under one window? I thought I heard something about the ability to open Word and then Powerpoint but instead of a new window opening its integrated into the one you are already in, this case Word, and simply a tab.

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]Regulas[/nom]Yeah right, you must be hack for MS, Open office is a very nice alternative to MS Office. You can do just about everything that the overpriced MS Office can do and some things that MS Office can't do.[/citation]
Not true. Some times, Open Office just CAN'T open up documents written in MS Word,etc correctly.

 

[blackbyron]

I'm wondering what's the benefit of using microsoft office 2010 in 64 bit.

 

[rooket]

I entirely doubt that open office can interface with microsoft online services. if it can, it would only be able to do microsoft exchange and not make use of any of the other services. you're not thinking about all of the possibilities that microsoft's product has to offer.

 

[eyemaster]

[citation][nom]tomtompiper[/nom]What can it do that 2007 couldn't or 2003 or XP or 2000 or 97? I think this is a case of milking customers dry.[/citation]

It's all about cloud computing and integration as well as stuff to do with Sharepoint Servers. The actual editing of documents has not changed in many years, it's the background work that's different. It's all targeted to corporate infrastructure.

 

[marraco]

[citation][nom]tomtompiper[/nom]What can it do that 2007 couldn't or 2003 or XP or 2000 or 97? I think this is a case of milking customers dry.[/citation]

In fact, 2003 did a lot of things that 2007 don't do, as dragging and dropping Excel series to a chart, to add new lines.

 

[marraco]

[citation][nom]zorky9[/nom]Well if you're an Excel number cruncher you'd appreciate the increase in columns from IV to XFD and a million more rows. Fill that up with a ton of formula and pivot tables. Run it on your single core machine and watch that hourglass for weeks.[/citation]

I are an Excel number cruncher, for example, to solve Laplace equation with iterative methods.

Excel can't use even 3 processors. My 8 i7 threads go totally wasted, and if I add a graphic showing the results, excel 2007 hangs, starts using lot of swap (even with reserving less than 100 Mb on a system with 6 Gb available), and crashes.

I'm waiting for that fixed since lot of excel versions, and it never is fixed. I gonna try Open Office any day, and I guess that excel will go the way of the dodo.

 

[drip50291]

a new office is NOTHING special i haven't even seen it but one of the hackers at my work has seen it and he wasn't impressed by it. THEY JUST ADDED MORE EYECANDY! and thats not even that special. Its still just a program that you can type shit in with all the same features. Anyone anticipating 2010 is a retarded noob tool.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

I am still using MS Office 2003 for personal use at home. It works very well with Win 7 Pro 64 that I recently installed.