Open Office evaluation

I switched to Open Office for a couple of weeks. My conclusion was that the next time I buy a personal computer, it will be an Intel Mac laptop with Open Office. Open Office has plenty of functionality and is better organized for the power user than Office 12.

Alas, if you already have Microsoft Office, it doesn’t really make sense to run Open Office in parallel, because converting old Office docs into OO and saving them back into Office inevitably introduces some small but annoying friction, and it doesn’t make sense to save all your existing Office .doc files into Open Office’s cleaner dedicated format, where you can’t open them with Office.

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