Saving MS Office Users
Jeff Mings
jeffm at lava.net
Tue Jun 26 13:25:49 PDT 2001
One of this lists's goals is to help others find superior
alternatives to proprietary software through Linux and other open-source
or free-as-in-speech software. If you'd like to save a company or
organization a lot of future costs and headaches caused by MS Office,
consider snipping the following text and forwarding it to them.
-Jeff Mings
Business and department heads need to know about Microsoft's move to
software subscription: you will not like it. If you're locked into MS
Office, the day will come when you'll get a new PC, or someone will send
you a Word file that you can't read, and you'll HAVE TO upgrade to MS
Office XP or its successor. When you do, you are likely to encounter
problems as described in these articles:
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2779746,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews02
and http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2766529,00.html .
If you're responsible for software expenditures, you should consider
freeing yourself from the MS upgrade train. The Department of Defense
has freed itself and saved millions of licensing dollars by moving to
the free StarOffice as reported at:
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2779806,00.html .
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