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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Office 2007 may be Microsoft's Titanic: former Government IT boss
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Bill Gates has been talking up Office 2007 ahead of its business launch
>| on November 30. However, the recently departed deputy CIO of one of
>| Australia's biggest government Microsoft sites believes introducing
>| the new version of Microsoft Office may be the company's biggest
>| ever disaster.
> `----
>
> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7234/53/
>
> Australia is among the countries where the government deploys Linux.
I think my biggest issue with Microsoft Office is that it's got steadily
more difficult to use by each release. Word remains reasonably
unstable, slow, and unable to handle even the most basic things
sensibly, like paragraph numbering - Lotus Manuscript was superior back
in MSDOS3 days. Excell is alright, but doesn't really do anything which
the last generation of DOS spreadsheets couldn't do more quickly and
more attractively.
There is the slight advantage that the printer drivers are now in a
serving layer, and so is the GUI, but in terms of actual usability, and
actual printer and graphics card support, we're no better off than when
Borland used to produce their own graphics drivers and printer drivers
for Quattro Pro.
Whilst Outlook is a bit of an improvement on msmail, it lacks even the
most basic features which Mutt has, like being able to select one's own
editor, say, and it's storage format is utterly proprietary, so whole
corporate histories are being locked into a format to which only
Microsoft has the key.
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