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Originally Posted by Hellcat
I'll stick with the "second stream" developers as they seem more committed to their products than Microsoft has ever been.
For example I switched completly to Trillian (all in one instant messenger) and have never looked back. Or an even better example is Open Office 2.0. Sure you lose some of that functionality you've become accustomed to, but change is the name of the game.
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What? W/ OO 2.0 you added functionality through the Open Document format. MS has been dragging their feet on this one, but they will be forced to join in the future.
OO 2.0 also has same number of boxes in a spreadsheet now at 65,535 where OO 1.4 only had 32,738. In the wordproc, I can only find grammer checker as the only thing possbly missed (Does anyone use this?) Abiword can be a quick fix for that, but I never use it anyway. Everything else has feature for feature that I can see, unless you can show me different?
You can even save in .doc or .xls if you need to send a file back to word or Excel. My Macro tests were even successful, but I did find one doc that had complex macros that didn't transfer perfectly (It was even hard to find since 99.9% of it did transfer correctly). Other than that one doc, everything is interchangable as far as I can see.
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