[Ilugc] [ILuG-C] Microsoft Office on Linux
- From: yogeshg1987@xxxxxxxxx (Yogesh Girikumar)
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 18:24:08 +0530
2012/1/6 Balachandran Sivakumar <benignbala at gmail.com>:
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Yogesh Girikumar <yogeshg1987 at gmail.com>
wrote:
1. Ease of use (read very visually appealing)
It is more a case of having got used to MS Office. I find LibreOffice
to be quite easy to use and visually appealing as well.
I find it appealing too.. But those who have been using ribbons and
stuff on MS will not find it as appealing or easy to use.. I've tried
MS word and I must say most tools are handy. They are easier to access
than they are in LibreOffice. But I love LibreOffice for several other
reasons impertinent to a MS user.
2. Excel Macros
3. Powerpoint
? ? ? ? You have far better options than that. Read the thread on
Impress.js for an example. LaTeX beamer is another. And Lyx is a
WYSIWYG that supports beamer
Bad learning curve. No one wants to unlearn what they've already
learnt and learn something new. I'm sure many have neither the time
nor the inclination to do that. Beamer is brilliant I agree. But do
you really expect people to learn it and use it? People want to use
the mouse to click and move stuff and get their work done. Beamer is
for pros, mathematicians and enthusiasts. Atleast IMO.
4. Outlook + MS Exchange
? ? ? ? ? MS Exchange is not part of the office suite. And so even if
Office is released for linux(We know that the story was fake), they
need not release MS Exchange. And taking just Outlook into
consideration, I find both Evolution and Thunderbird to be better.
Yes. I meant that most enterprises use Exchange server and Outlook
does a good job of integrating with it. I know Thunderbird has a
plugin to do that and Evolution can handle it by default. But still,
I'm pointing out why MS Office in Linux might be exciting to some
people and enterprises.
That said, I really do hope LibreOffice (and LaTeX and Thunderbird) is
improved and people start using it big time. I do, really ! :)
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