{"id":4074,"date":"2010-03-26T22:12:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T20:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2010-03-27T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T08:22:47","slug":"ms-office-or-openoffice-the-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/26\/ms-office-or-openoffice-the-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Office or OpenOffice? The comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/microsoftoffice-vs-openoffice.jpg\" alt=\"microsoftoffice vs openoffice\" title=\"microsoftoffice vs openoffice\" width=\"350\" height=\"261\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/microsoftoffice-vs-openoffice.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/microsoftoffice-vs-openoffice-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/microsoftoffice-vs-openoffice-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Bruce Byfield of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/magazine\/openofficeorg-vs-microsoft-office\">Linux Journal<\/a>, it is now possible to have a relatively fair comparison of the heavy-weight champion of office suites (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/office\/\">Microsoft Office<\/a> or MS-Office) and the young hyper-active challenger (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, OpenOffice advantage is that it is cheaper than Microsoft Office: It&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<p>But what are the other ways to compare both? Bruce goes to great lengths (3 pages) to try and give us a balanced comparison around the overall interface, the MS-Word\/OpenOffice Writer word processors, MS-Excel\/OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet applications, PowerPoint\/OpenOffice Impress presentation tools.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, and I believe that this is a credit OpenOffice, the differences are really small and the price (free) of OpenOffice will be heavy in the decision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/magazine\/openofficeorg-vs-microsoft-office\">OpenOffice.org vs. Microsoft Office<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, did I mention that I am a strong advocate of OpenOffice? I have been using it both for personal and professional activities, for 10 years now; And it it keeps improving a very good base into an excellent tool (including the full compatibility with Microsoft files).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Bruce Byfield of Linux Journal, it is now possible to have a relatively fair comparison of the heavy-weight champion of office suites (Microsoft Office or MS-Office) and the young hyper-active challenger (OpenOffice). Obviously, OpenOffice advantage is that it is cheaper than Microsoft Office: It&#8217;s free. But what are the other ways to compare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,40,34,1040,16,36],"tags":[337,1190,277,918,1071,1188,923,1179,1191,1189],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-downloads","category-linux","category-spreadsheet","category-tech","category-windows-7","category-vista","category-word-processor","tag-download","tag-excel","tag-free","tag-freeware","tag-microsoft","tag-ms-office","tag-office","tag-openoffice","tag-powerpoint","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}