Open Office vs MS Office

[noaccount]

Never bought MS Office and probably never will, OO is outstanding.

[hellnoire]

As a college student, all you need is your school email address and you get a great student discount on MS Office!
http://www.microsoft.com/student/dis...s/default.aspx

Bad news... that link is Windows-only.

I've bought though it, and all they give you is an EXE, or if you wanted it delivered, it's on two CDs, but it's EXE all the way.

No good for Macs.

[newprouser]

As long it satisfies my needs anything will do. though i've heard that OO has got some good plugins.

[4yotasan]

My father ordered a new PC which doesn't have any Office suite, so I think I'm going to install OpenOffice for him. But if MS Office were for free I would go for that.

[safeguy]

Good poll...for me, I like Microsoft Office 07 interface and it does load up faster than Office 03...

As for OpenOffice, it's darn fast on Linux but slightly slow to load on Windows (at least that's how it was on my PC)...

It's tough to make a choice but Microsoft Office is what I will go with...wish it was free though...

Edit: hellnoire is right...I tried Kingsoft Office and it is not bad after all...it's just that it's not free...

[PeterB]

I prefer ms office 2003, not 2007 edition. I dont like the new layout eventhough you can get a program that makes it look like 2003 edition. But if money is an issue, i would go for open office (OO). it is very good to. If i am learning something new i like to copy /paste it into a document, this is where OO is good. not the go-OO. it crashes. Also softmaker 2006+2008 office is bad at this point. What I haven't tried is all those free online office's like google's, so i can't comment on those ones.

[ripper]

MS office may be way better then others both for average and non-demanding user Open Office is good enough.

[yooman]

I voted for Microsoft Office. I also tried OpenOffice... it's meets all needs and it's good cause it's free.

But I really like the Office 2007's Ribbon. I didn't liked first time when I saw it, but now I'm used with it and it helps me to the things faster.

So, I'm waiting for Office 2010 the x64 version.

[muaan]

i consider using MS than open
because:
MS is more popular thats all lol

[rohitkch]

It's totally depend on your packet and like/unlike. For me I have office 2K7, openoffice and ss suite office respectively in my three pc/laptop and all I'm enjoying in same rythem.

People who are saying office 2003/2007 is better I belive it's mostly because of used to as we had started to use office first then other package, I'm sure that as soon as we will start to use other package we will be fond of them. It's similar to use of Nokia mobile set then other make handset.

But I respect member choice...